These need not be read literally. But their use as metaphors indicates the Aryans were familiar with same-sex activity.

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 ...

Why has Andrew Sullivan started referring to Iran as Persia and Iranians as Persians? Is this some left-over English tic that has suddenly resurfaced, or is it supposed to be some kind of ...

On March 20, Iranians in Iran and in the diaspora commemorated Nowruz, the Persian New Year. Typically, U.S. administrations have used the occasion to practice some soft power diplomacy.

the old language of Persia/Iran, and ‘Indo Aryan’ i.e. Sanskritic are very close akin indeed. My mother is a Parsi, so I was fascinated to see that the Aryans may well have been Zoroastrians.

SIR ARTHUR KEITH'S Frazer lecture on “The Aryan Theory as it stands To-day”, which was delivered in the University of Glasgow on March 4, was lacking neither in courage nor in imagination.

The first stop of the Aryans in their journey towards India was Iran. • It is the oldest book in the Indo-European language. • A compendium of prayers, it is divided into ten books or mandalas.