From where did Aryans originate?
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According to the Britannica, Aryans were thought to be a people that in ancient times settled in Iran and northern India.
Aryan, name originally given to a people who were said to speak an archaic Indo-European language and who were thought to have settled in prehistoric times in ancient Iran and the northern Indian subcontinent.
Proto Aryans
I assume however that it is the location of Proto-Aryans that we are talking about, and according to a theory reported by the Encyclopedia Iranica, certain scholars believe this area to correspond to what is today central Asian parts of Russia, and Kazakhstan
Most scholars consider Central Asia, i.e., roughly the Eastern Iranian steppes of ancient Sogdiana, Chorasmia, and Bactria and the adjacent area to the north of them (between the lower Volga and Kazakhstan) as the original habitat of the nomadic Proto-Aryans.
2000bc
Whether or not the theory that Proto Aryans originate in Russia and Kazakhstan is correct, they left their Proto-Aryan homeland about 2000bc and appeared in Northern Mesopotamia and India.
The Indo-Aryans seem to have left the Proto-Aryan homeland about 2000 B.C.; according to R. Ghirshman they went in two groups: the first reached Northern Mesopotamia, the other passed between the Karakum Desert and the great Central Desert, the Dašt-e Kavīr, over Koppa Dāḡ into Northern Afghanistan, and over the Hindu Kush into India.
From where did Aryans originate?
There is no actual answer to this question as all that is available are hypothesis, with the Central Asian hypothesis perhaps being the favoured one among scholars.
Were Aryans part of the first human civilization and were they related to Sumers?
There are a lot of theories regarding Aryans, some of them very racist in nature, and a suggestion that anyone knows for a fact that Sumerians were the ancestors of Aryans would have to fall in to the far out there category, as quite simply no-one knows this. All that is known is that they appeared in world history around 2000bc and their location at this time was Mesopotamia and Northern India.
Genetic study
According to TheHindu (Indian Newspaper) a Genetic study has made Scientists around the globe accept the migration hypothesis into India
The thorniest, most fought-over question in Indian history is slowly but surely getting answered: did Indo-European language speakers, who called themselves Aryans, stream into India sometime around 2,000 BC – 1,500 BC when the Indus Valley civilisation came to an end, bringing with them Sanskrit and a distinctive set of cultural practices? Genetic research based on an avalanche of new DNA evidence is making scientists around the world converge on an unambiguous answer: yes, they did.
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