Ancient arias. Myths and history. From Scythia to India. Bongard-Levin G., Grantovsky E.

In the book of famous Russian orientalists of the Indologist G. M. Bongard -Levin and Iranist E. A. Grantovsky, new data are given for one of the discussion problems of historical science - the origin of the ancient Indo -Iranian (Aryan) tribes. The authors introduce the reader to the richest epic tradition of the Indo -Iranian peoples, their mythological and cosmological ideas. Based on various sources, the authors consider the main issues of the “Aryan problem” - about the ancestral home, time and paths of the aris resettlement.