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Ancient DNA and the Vedic People: What Genetics Now Tells Us About the Composers of the Rig Veda
Until 2015, the question of where the Rig Vedic people came from could be addressed only by linguistics and archaeology. Ancient DNA has changed that. A summary of the Narasimhan et al. (2019) Science paper and what it tells us about the people behind the hymns.
The Lost Sarasvati: Satellite Imagery, Geology and the Rig Veda's Sacred River
The Sarasvati is praised in roughly 50 Rig Vedic hymns as a mighty perennial river flowing from mountain to sea. By the Brāhmaṇas she had vanished. Satellite imagery, sediment cores and isotope geochemistry now let us reconstruct what happened.