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The Aryan Invasion Theory, developed by Professor Max Muller was an ingenious idea relinking the Indus Valley Civilization and its sudden decline. A common hypothesis is that Aryans originated in the steppes (plains) of Russia. From there they may have migrated to Europe and down into Mesopotamia. Others believe that the Aryans arose in Europe and migrated eastward. Some theorists, occasionally for racist reasons, claim that Aryans were the founders of the ancient Mesopotamian civilizations and were therefore the world’s first civilized peoples. The Aryans are also linked to the decline of the IVC(Indus Valley Civilization) The common belief is that by 1500 BCE, a large group of nomadic cattle-herders, the Aryans, invaded and conquered the region, coming from the west, thus putting an end to the Indus civilization which may have had at its peak at that time.