His efforts and those of fellow experts from the Archaeology Department of Deccan College, Pune, have yielded a variety of artifacts, including a bowl shaped vessel with a narrow neck that is believed to be a musical instrument.

Aryan culture spread all the way from Central Asia to present day Iran, Iraq, Pakistan and India. Excavations in Iraq have yielded Sanskrit inscriptions and the names of gods like Indra, Varun and Mitra.

Such inscriptions have not been found at Madina, where Professor Kumar has been working, but plenty of other objects like bone points, metal objects, arrow heads and terracotta horsemen have been recovered.

'This site belongs to the period around 1200 BC when painted grey ware people, those associated with Asians, came to India and settled in the vast plains of Punjab and Haryana. They established their villages,' says Dr Kumar.

'This site we have excavated is a single culture site and no painted grey ware culture has been excavated at this scale. Normally, painted grey ware sites are inhabited by the later habitations. When excavators reached that level they had very little area left to excavate…we were not in a position to know all the aspects of the culture, but fortunately this is a single culture site and we could excavate a large portion. As a result we could find at least seven structural phases of those people normally associated with the Aryans on a circumstantial basis,' he explains.

Other discoveries include ovens, clay pits, pottery kilns, people's huts, pots and pans and toys, which will be written about in detail by Kumar and his associates.

According to Kumar, there are at least another 1,000 Aryan settlement sites in Haryana alone that are waiting to be excavated. To give some historical perspective to his discoveries, he says the period they represent is roughly contemporary to that of ancient Troy

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