I think there is now a severe fight going on between the conventional Aryan invaders (!) fans and the Indian autochtanous Aryan fans, how fun. The only truth is Aryan concept doesnt belong to those groups mentioned, thats why there is no consensus on how, where and when it started lol. Also, there are zillions of such twisted historical articles roaming around, even I can write one, depending on my own politics and interests. That this one is published by Harvard makes it a totally unbiased one? its not the case, especially in ancient history arena
Anyway, I am repeating, second hand sources are garbage, not only sided but also open to demagogy and interpretation in every way. So one should always look at the first hand sources, especially the very old ones, like the ones I am constantly sharing, free from personal or political interpretations. Did you hear about Tamerlan, great Turkic ruler Timur who ruled Turkics and some Mongolic tribes in Central Asia late 1300s:
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Magni Tamerlanis,Scythorum İmperatoris Vita (The Life of Tamerlan, the Emperor of Scythians)'', Petrus Perondinus, 1553 Vatican
Adile Ayda, history researcher and the first female ambassador of Turkey in Rome wrote: ''This book was written and presented to the patriarch of Alexandria, in which the people of Tamerlan was sometimes called as Scythiand and sometimes as Tartars. As Scythians were referred to central Asian Turks, not Mongols nor antoher nation. The evidence for this is in the 10. page of the book, writes as 'He is called
blessed Temir/Timur (iron/steel in Turkish) which means in Scythian language 'the holder of of blessed sword' (Temirus Gutlus fuit appelatus, quae vox Scythica lingua fortunatu gladiu exprimit). So in 16th century westerners called Turks in Cental Asia as Scythians, and after the imposition of Aryanism and Indo-europeanism, this reality tried to be hid from the eyes'' Adile Ayda, The First Ancestors of Turks, Ankara, 1987, p. 39-41
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