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From: sarima@netcom.com (Stanley Friesen)
Subject: Re: What are Scythians?
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In article <petrichCzo21y.G27@netcom.com>,
Loren Petrich <petrich@netcom.com> wrote:
>
>	Actually, there was a brief Indo-Aryan presence about 1500 BCE in 
>that territory, the Mitanni kingdom.

What is interesting is that recent research into the Kassite
Dynasty in Babylon suggests a similar distant relationship
to the Indo-Aryans for them as well.

[And it wasn't all *that* brief, the Mitanni Empire lasted
a few hundred years]
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