Historical chronology, wrote the German historian Dietrich Hermann Hegewisch in 1854, is necessary "to furnish a principle of order. Orwell's old cliché about control of the past may come as a shock to young first-time readers of 1984, but to chronologists, it's old hat.
It just so happens that much of humanity's recollection of history is shakily reconstructed and not so easily demonstrated. It sounds insane, and it is derided by most modern scholars as "pseudohistory." But in fact, New Chronology has a rich history of its own, with roots in the Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment-in the sincere conviction that what is real is what's demonstrable. Who controls the present controls the past." The late Russian social critic Alexander Zinoviev provided the foreword to this master work: "The entire history of humanity up until the XVII century is a forgery of global proportions," he wrote, "a falsification as deliberate as it is universal." These rules are explained in a seven-volume corpus by Fomenko that opens with Orwell's famous saw fromġ984: "Who controls the past controls the future. This version of events is substantiated by hard facts and logic – validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources – to a greater extent than everything you may have read and heard about history before.īaudrillardian copies without an original. Speaking of carbon, don't bother relying on carbon dating or other "scientific" chronological methods, Fomenko says: They are premised on the "old" dating system, and hence thoroughly corrupted. Early English history-from the accepted names and dates to the apocryphal legends of a post-Roman King Arthur-is actually a carbon copy of Fourth Century Byzantium, which is itself a fiction based on late Medieval events. Aristotle instructed Alexander the Great, who was a tsar, in Moscow in the 1400s. Ancient Egypt, Rome, and Greece were fashioned by Renaissance writers and artists (the time of the Pharoahs, Fomenko suggests, may have lasted into the 1700s). Jesus Christ was crucified in Constantinople in 1086. Joan of Arc was a model for the biblical character Deborah. Precede those of the Old Testament-and in any case, most of the stories are concocted to reflect later incidents. In his chronology, the events of the New Testament In doing so, they grafted recent occurrences onto earlier dates-sometimes unwittingly, sometimes perniciously-thus creating numerous "historical duplicates." History appears to repeat itself, Fomenko suggests, because it is thoroughly plagiarized. From that point on, chroniclers-primarily learned religious scholars-used supposition and arbitrary consensus to fix the dates of key events in history. Most of our knowledge of earlier cultures is based on texts or copies of texts that date fromĪfter that era. Since 1980, Fomenko, mathematician at Moscow State University and full member of Russia's prestigious Academy of Sciences, has been the leading proponent ofĪ radical revision of human history-"an improved version of the global chronology of the Ancient Time," as he and collaborator Gleb Nosovsky put it-based on statistical and astronomical analyses.įomenko believes there is no reliable written record of human events before the 11th century. He will be assisted by chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, as well as Sir Isaac Newton. And it is ingrained in us so early, so matter-of-factly, that it permeates most of our existences without demanding critical reflection.Īnatoly Timofeyevich Fomenko would like to blow your mind now, please. We have all sought and found these connections to our past-in museums, in books, in the ground. You begin to get a sense of the scope of New Chronology, the "empirico-statistical" theory that much of human history is a fiction assembled to serve the powerful.Ĭan you recall your middle-school social studies lessons? How, at some willowy point in your 11th or 12th year, you learned that recorded history begins with the appearance of writing? There were the Mesopotamians with their cuneiform scripts the Egyptians' hieroglyphs and demotic scrawls and later, the Greeks and Romans, whose societies form the backbone, for better or worse, of our own-if only because they kept such meticulous records. Now assume that 400,000 to 2 million such days were concocted. Assume a notable story on a notable day in history-the lunar landing, say-was fabricated.
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