Aryan son of an Aryan

I am Dariush, the great king, the king of kings
The king of many countries and many people
The king of this expansive land,
The son of Wishtaspa of Achaemenid,
Persian, the son of a Persian,
'Aryan', from the Aryan race

R1a (Aryan gene)
Spencer Wells, director of the Genographic Project at the National Geographic Society:
The current distribution of the R1a (M17) haplotype is likely to represent traces of an ancient population migration originating in southern Russia/Ukraine, where R1a (M17) is found at high frequency(50%) It is possible that the domestication of the horse in this region around 3,000 B.C.

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