Indo-Iranian peoples

Speakers of the Indo-Iranian languages, the far eastern branch of the Indo-European language group, who were probably originally pastoral nomads of the central Eurasian steppes. They included the Aryans, who migrated into northern India in the mid-2nd millennium BC, and the Cimmerians, Scythians, Medes and Persians, who migrated into the Middle East, Anatolia and Ukraine in the 9th-7th centuries BC.