The search for an Indo-European homeland has taken us some two hundred years by now. The main part of this paper will be concerned with the supposed "mythical homeland" of the Iranians. Russian archaeologists have found already some 20 years ago what might amount to some of the earliest attested traces of Aryan material culture.
The search for an Indo-European homeland has taken us some two hundred years by now. The main part of this paper will be concerned with the supposed "mythical homeland" of the Iranians. Russ…