History of humankind ever strike you as illogical?

Has history been tampered with? The documented history of human civilization is supposed to reach several millennia back into the past. And yet if we consider the rate at which civilization is supposed to have progressed, we encounter periods of obscurity and informational vacuum following the alleged decline of every ancient empire, and then everything starts anew. Inventions are presumed lost for centuries, then re-invented by people whose names bear suspicious semblance to those of the ancient inventors. Just how true all of this is? Could history as we know it really be a collation of several chronicles relating to one and the same period of time?


Apparently, this is what the Russian mathematician Anatoly Fomenko claims. He is the author of the first volume in a series of seven that came out in English recently, and generated incredible controversy amongst professional historians worldwide. Many are trying to put the author into one league with numerous paranoid conspiracy theorists and mad inventors - however, all of his work conforms to the highest academic standards and is backed by solid scientific facts; furthermore, some of the most lucid minds of our time support many of the theories put forward by the authors. Garry Kasparov, the world chess champion, says the following in his preface to volume 1:

"Let us consider the factor of a mass character that I shall be referring to as psychophysical. Documented history tells us of the insatiable need of human beings to make discoveries. The vector of technological progress is a strictly vertical one. Every ten years something happens: discoveries, sea voyages, explosions... Everything keeps on changing, we see constant evolution - from Columbus to the landing on the Moon, from crossbows to nuclear bombs. Forwards and upwards. However, the traditional ancient history tells us of periods when humanity apparently remained dormant for centuries - "ancient" Egypt, the mediaeval "Dark Ages" - whole epochs of utter stasis in human thinking. It appears that the inhabitants of ancient Egypt and Rome had a different genetic code, and couldn't be bothered about anything at all, so they froze in their development, the result being a total lack of innovative activity. At the same time, there had been prosperous ancient empires where those among homo sapiens who possessed penchants for arts and sciences could get plenty of opportunities for growth and development. But, alas and alack, all of the prosperous "ancient" empires had ceased their development at some point."

How many historical documents are counterfeit?

We shall never know just how many historical documents are in fact counterfeit. History in general goes hand in hand with the history of forgeries; countless chronicles as well as works of art and literature have been considered authentic for centuries before becoming denounced as counterfeit. A presumed fragment of Cicero's "De Consolatione" discovered by the famous humanist scholar Sigonius only became identified as a work of the latter two centuries after the death of the author -- we would probably still believe in Cicero's authorship of said fragment if it hadn't been for the discovery of Sigonius' written confession.

Similar examples are rather abundant -- the "Thespian poet Lucius Varus" who turned out to be a 18th century Dutch scientist by the name of Heerkens plagiarizing from the 16th century Venetian author Corrario, the German "translation" of a Phoenician history tractate by a student named Wagenfeld in the 19th century, "classical" texts sold to the Leipzig library by a certain Schennis in the 1920's and so forth. Think of just how many remain undiscovered -- after all, the larger part of the iceberg always remains underwater.

However, there may be an equal amount of valid historical documents in existence that were declared forgeries due to their being at odds with the official history. Anatoly Fomenko, the prominent mathematician, was the first to apply natural scientific methods to historical data, coming up with a revolutionary theory which implies a radical revision of history as we know it. This theory finally explains such historical oddities as the existence of Christian tabernacles in the pagan town of Pompeii and the Ottoman Turks referred to as "Persians" in mediaeval documents. It is rendered in Fomenko's fundamental work entitled: "History: Fiction or Science" which is finally out in English. "Sensational" is a very mild term -- this book is heretical, controversial and clearly subversive -- but even the most uncanny ideas it contains are all backed up by statistics, astronomy, and brilliant logic. Fomenko's book may infuriate you since it contradicts everything you were taught in school, but once you're through with it, your view of history shall never be the same again!

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[John2083]

What do you have to take to think this stuff up?

[WolYou]

The entire religiously influenced literature is crap. Jesus is an invention and so is everything else in history. Only the facts are relevant. And facts are objects, not scripture. I dont need a book to tell me that others books lying about history. Of course they do. Has anyone believed this crap anyway?

[KriegMarshal94]

@jointfunk actually, not to try and counter anything you said, but the Romans kind of did have their version of the bible, at least the new testament. The new testament was written in Greek and Latin originally, instead of Hebrew.

[smb12321]

The best aspect is the continual popup, "BUY ON AMSXON!" LOL

For those yapping about Jesus in the Middle Ages, there is a snippet of Egyptian papyrus of the Gospel of John carbon dated circa 110 AD,. I know, it's either a conspiracy or a fake or carbon dating does is not "real". The lack of critical thinking is frightening.

[Narsimhadev010]

according to the Vedas of India and other great histories and texts such as those found in Egypt the history of man goes back much farther than we are told, according to the Vedas perhaps even millions of years, before scoffing pls see

the research of Michael Cremo and evidence of humans going back millions of years

[Goodspittin]

History is written by the victor. All it takes is a few good lies and oceans of flood to stamp out the truth forever.

[dorkmaul]

Umm okay a mathematician has a theory about history, thats like saying "oh im the greatest scientist so im gonna talk about how awkward the english language sounds" wel he is a language arts teacher so he shouldnt be teaching english, same to that russian math guy, stick to math

[cindyaniston]

I thought human stupidity couldn't get any worse. I was wrong.

[DarkbloodProductionz]

First off I must say that this is retarded to think that historians would lie about their research...ps to all those Christian haters I must say read the book and try our way before you criticize it... Also to the guy quoting scripture we can't say for sure where or who the anti christ will come from

[Discovios]

You are part of the misinformation group.

[RiftZM]

What a bunch of garbage. I agree that all the dates given for certain things are off to some extent, but you can't honestly believe that Jesus was born in the 11th century... Aside from 1 author (excluding bible), there is actually no evidence Jesus even existed, so to have factual proof he existed in the 11th century just proves this book is full of shit. I know of 2 people who have read this garbage, and they think it's a severe warping of the truth, and it's ALL theoretical.