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Sunday Feature: Tracking the Aryans

Series 1, episode 0

Historian Bettany Hughes uncovers the troubled story of the search for the ancient Aryans, and journeys to Siberia to find out how recent archaeological discoveries are bringing them renewed attention. Nowadays associated with the Nazi ideology of a blond blue-eyed master race, the term Aryan was once used to refer to the speakers of a prehistoric language from which the modern Indo-European Language family is descended. Bettany travels to the Siberian Steppe and the ancient circular fortified town of Arkaim to find out. And witnesses how even today the Aryans are being used for modern political ends