The Aryan problem, the knottiest in human history, is now over two centuries old, and no acceptable solution is in sight in spite of the best efforts of many renowned scholars. The academic world is divided into two warring camps : one, consisting mostly of western scholars and a few Indians, advocating that the Vedic Aryans came to India from outside and composed the Rgveda (Rv) about 1200 -1000 BC; the other, comprising mostly Indian and a few western scholars, maintain that they were indigenous to India and it is from here that they spread out to different lands in the west; they assign the Rv to about 5000 BC. The available evidence comes from two disciplines: linguistics and archaeology, but since no one is expert in both, the problem has defied solution. The issue has also been exploited for political purposes as was done by Gustav Kossina in Germany and by the British colonial rulers in India. It has therefore been suggested that it would be profitable to ignore the Aryans for some time. However, interesting archaeological data has become available in recent years which, we hope, throws welcome light on the problem and challenges the older, fond theories of both the schools. The present paper examines this new evidence which leads us to find a satisfactory solution to the riddle of the Vedic Aryans.