If you know enough mathematicians, you can believe almost any story about one. They can be spectacular and utterly charming together. (To be fair, we physicists aren’t much better.) Anatoly Fomenko is a skilled Russian mathematician who also happens to be—in his mind, anyway—a historian. However, his version of history is different.
Fomenko sifts through the historical record of the past millennia, looking for statistical correlations in patterns of events and their relative timing. Knowing the proper sequence of events and their relative separation over the years helps the historian to deduce the absolute date on which they occurred. this is chronology, Fomenko does not believe that statistically identical chronologies repeat by chance. When two timelines match too much, one of them must be fake. This leads him to some eye-catching conclusions.
Synthesis of his 40 years of work: Complete Written History is the copying, alteration and repetition of a limited set of historical events that occurred only from AD 800 onwards and mostly from AD 1000-1100. Nothing really happened in the earlier eras. In short it is as follows: antiquity is the middle ages, This is a bit hard to imagine, so let’s look at an example.
Fomenko’s Parallel Universe
Prepare a chart of the reign of the kings of Judah from circa 0 to 400 AD, along with a chart of German kings from circa 950 to 1350 AD. You can see that the patterns look similar. it can This means that the Kingdom of Judah was coined by historians from the actual history of the Saxon dynasty of the Middle Ages in Europe.
this is Fomenko analogy, a method somewhat similar to science. It finds many statistical correlations between historical chronologies; You can see about 20 of them here. In some sense, it can This means that a whole false prehistory of Western civilization was pieced together by duplicating more modern history with fake names, dates and descriptions – which continues to be emphasized here. can, Fomenko parallelism also extends to observations of stars, physical distances between historical capitals, similarities in names, etc.
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With so much history being rewritten, there have been many famous casualties. Jesus Christ can The Byzantine emperor appears to have been Andronikos I Komnenos, possibly associated with elements borrowed from biographies of other historical figures, including a pope and a Chinese emperor. If this sounds too unbelievable, consider that Komnenos was put to death at the end of his reign with wounds somewhat similar to those of Jesus. Then again, he too was inane, murderous and cruel. (But that’s according to official history, of course.)
Several historically prominent cities have suffered further casualties in Fomenko’s alternate chronology. It turns out that ancient Troy and Jerusalem were the same city. That city is Constantinople. Ancient Rome, on the other hand, may have been in Egypt, although this “requires additional research.” Rome in Italy was built only in the 14th century.
Enter the Russo-Horde
While this may all sound quite wild, we are just warming up for the main event. The biggest conclusion one might draw from Fomenko’s work is that human history was dominated by Russia-Horde. This force under the leadership of tsar-khan As Georgi – Genghis Khan – Danilovichi conquered most of the world. In the process, he built the pyramids of Giza and inspired the historical legends of the ancient Roman Empire.
The adventures of Dmitry Donskoy were recreated to make Constantine the Roman emperor. In this version of history, Donskoy was not a Russian leader who defeated the Mongols, but the leader of the Russo-Horde. In the following centuries, the Russo-Horde accomplished other feats, such as sending colonists to the Americas, who started the Christian Empire of the American Incans.
Lessons from Anatoly Fomenko
Fomenko’s seven-volume (!!) series contains a wide range of (mis)information, rewriting nearly all of human history in its alternate chronology. We can barely scratch the skin of this large and juicy fruit. If you are looking for something unusual and fascinating then this is a delectable read. Many routes, including those linked above, can be accessed for free new chronology Website. here is Volume I For starters.
What can we conclude from this work? First, it’s a good thing that people are looking for the truth in unconventional ways. Uncertain dates are alien to us in the age of huge paper and digital records. However, the knowledge of ancient history was kept alive for many centuries by only a few literate theologians and scholars. With the channels of information so few and weak, it is possible to somehow alter a large part of it. Fomenko suspects some Christian scholars, especially Joseph Scaliger, are pulling it off. Scaligerian chronology Switcheroo. This may be less crazy than it sounds when we consider that it has happened over and over again within living memory.
Second, mathematics and science are powerful tools, but they are not omnipotent. They have limited value in tracing history. Statistics is a self-sustaining discipline, but when applied improperly – as is often the case – the conclusions are useless. This is evidenced by the lack of scientific reproducibility in some modern research disciplines. Fomenko’s work is a fun “what if”, but also a lesson on the limitations of statistical analysis methods.
