History: Fiction or Science?

Chronology volumes 17
New Chronology (Fomenko)
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The New Chronology is a fringe theory regarded by the majority of the
academic community as pseudohistory, which argues that the
conventional chronology of Middle Eastern and European history is
fundamentally flawed, and that events attributed to the civilizations of the
Roman Empire, Ancient Greece and Ancient Egypt actually occurred
during the Middle Ages, more than a thousand years later. The central
concepts of the New Chronology are derived from the ideas of Russian
scholar Nikolai Morozov (1854-1946),
[1]
although work by French
scholar Jean Hardouin (1646-1729) can be viewed as an earlier
predecessor.
[2]
However, the New Chronology is most commonly
associated with Russian mathematician Anatoly Fomenko (b. 1945),
although published works on the subject are actually a collaboration
between Fomenko and several other mathematicians. The concept is
most fully explained in History: Fiction or Science? which was written in Russian but has been translated into
English.
The New Chronology also contains a reconstruction, an alternative chronology, radically shorter than the
conventional chronology, because all ancient history is "folded" onto the Middle Ages. According to the revised
chronology, the written history of humankind goes only as far back as AD 800, there is almost no information about
events between AD 8001000, and most known historical events took place in AD 10001500.
While some researchers have developed revised chronologies of Classical and Biblical periods that shorten the
timeline of ancient history by eliminating various "dark ages", none of these is as radical as that of the New
Chronology. The New Chronology is rejected by mainstream historians and is inconsistent with absolute and
relative dating techniques used in the wider scholarly community. The majority of scientific commentators consider
The New Chronology to be pseudoscientific.
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Contents
1 History of New Chronology
2 Fomenko's claims
2.1 Brief summary
2.2 Detailed description
3 Fomenko's methods
3.1 Statistical correlation of texts
3.2 Statistical correlation of dynasties
3.3 Astronomical evidence
3.4 Rejection of common dating methods
4 Popularity