The Aryans: Major cities

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Updated: Oct 05, 2010 13:38 IST

By , IANS

Archaeologists have discovered bronze age cities built by the Aryans in a remote Russian region, dating back to the beginning of Western civilisation in Europe.

Archaeologists have identified 20 of the spiral-shaped settlements that were built some 4,000 years ago shortly after the Great Pyramid in Egypt.

The buildings were believed to be used by the original Aryan race whose swastika symbol was adopted by the Nazis in the 1930s.

TV historian Bettany Hughes explored the desolate part of the Russian steppe which borders Kazakhstan this summer for a BBC Radio 3 programme, reports the Daily Mail.

She said: "Potentially, this could rival ancient Greece in the age of the heroes. Because I have written a lot about the Bronze Age world, there always seemed to be this huge missing piece of the jigsaw puzzle.

"We are all told that there is this kind of mother tongue, proto-Indo-European, from which all the languages we know emerge."

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