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ISBN: 2913621058
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Immensely stimulating! February 3, 2006
35 out of 43 found this review helpful

Fomenko's thesis that all of ancient history was either invented during the Renaissance or at least only based on recent medieval events provided me with an enormous trigger "to see for myself". Having been interested in history for a number of decades, but having got tired of always the same topics in only a new jacket, Fomenko's book opened wide avenues to study new topics to test the author's thesis. To give just some examples: medieval history of the Middle East (Islamic history), the history of the Mongols, Tamerelane, the Ottoman empire; the origins of Christianity and Islam, the development of cartography, language, technology, astronomy.
Everybody who has an interest in history should read this book, if only to start out on his own voyage of discovery and to try to come up with his own solutions!

5 out of 5 stars

Which Conspiracy? Which pseudoscience? January 28, 2006
28 out of 37 found this review helpful

Read the book or at least use the "Search Inside" feature before complaining about the lack of evidence. Both vol.1+vol.2 and are crammed with evidence with more to come in volumes 3,4,5,6,7.

Fomenko does not cook evidence, he quotes it from 1534 sources. He sure does document his theory properly. If anything, this "manipulation" suffers from the overkill by overdose of evidence; his proprietary empirico-statistical methods are clean and adequate, although inevitably somewhat too detailed.

Yes, there is an intuitive "conspiracy" of mainstream historians to sweep Fomenko's theory under the carpet and this conspiracy operates without special coordination and massive communication. There are anti-Fomenko websites operated mostly by undergradute historians in search of credits; all of them have one thing in common - being not to the point.

Vol.1 one contains detailed description of mass production of "ancient sources", culprits are mostly known. Fomenko's assertions apart, books about falsification of artefacts, manuscripts abound. Renaissance Italy was the main supplier thereof, for centuries thousands of monks in hundreds of monasteries have been mass producing the antiquity.

"Deep" roots in time legitimize nicely the "right" to the title to position of power, rank or property. You don't need to organize a conspiracy to falsify history, court and church historians knew only too well how to please their masters.

For centuries the history was re-re-re-written. Napoleon said: "history is a fable agreed upon". All that mathematician Fomenko did was to apply statistics and astronomy to this mountains of "evidence" with dire consequences (conclusions) for the consensual history. If all methods or dating are non-exact and/or erroneous, which is regrettably the case until the contrary is proven, if there are no original written sources older than xi cy, which is even more regrettably the case too, then Dr Prof Fomenko version of civilization of humankind controversial or not has the same validity as the consensual one. Actually it is a more probable version as abundant statistical and astronomical data speaks in its favour.

No theory that questions the foundations of a discipline is welcome, especially not one coming from non-historian, mathematician and a Russian. Mainstream fundamentalist historians will go any length to dismiss evidence presented and condemn the heretic outright.

To start with they brazenly brand Fomenko's theory as pseudoscience. That's a remarkable feat on their part as history per se does not qualify as a science. For the time being it looks like a perfect "body" of knowledge, but once you x-ray this "body" with methods of natural sciences you see rags, stiltes and stiches, not a nice picture at all. The days of historical phlogiston, aether and 'elan vital' are numbered.

2 out of 5 stars

Pseudo-science wrapped in Christianity January 7, 2006
36 out of 66 found this review helpful

The author is respected in the field of mathematics, and that is well and good, but his objectivity (and argument) is tainted in his bid to conform history into his narrow Christian viewpoint.

Fomenko doesn't stop to consider that Christian mythos borrows heavily from other religions and events... rather, he wants us to believe that all of these events and writings are based on the life of Jesus Christ! (And he, in these works, is not from ancient Palestine, but Russia!)

This book is an interesting Christian curio, with tainted science aspects. Historians, Egyptologists and serious scholars would do well to spend their book budgets elsewhere.

5 out of 5 stars

History and Astronomy are not compatible April 29, 2005
54 out of 62 found this review helpful

This is a most unusual book, one that undermines the very foundations of History. According to the author and his team of researchers, History as it has been taught in Europe ever since the Renaissance is fundamentally false, verified history beginning around 1250 AD the earliest. Jesus Christ was born in 1053 and crucified in 1086, the First Crusade being an immediate reaction to his Crucifixion. Homer identifies an an anonymous poet of the second half of XIII century AD, and the event led to the creation of the Iliad had been the fall of the Latin Empire of Constantinople in 1261 AD. The list goes on and on.
Historians generally oppose the author's views without making much commentary. The author is not a historian, they say, period. He is only a leading differential geometrician, successful and respected, author of many advanced textbooks. A. Fomenko is also a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences; his main argumentation is of a statistical and astronomical nature. I happen to be a physicist myself and not a historian. However, astronomy and differential geometry are known to me well from the area of general relativity, and I cannot recommend this book enough, since its author approaches History, usually a highly emotional discipline ascribed to the field of humanities, armed with impartial mathematics.
History is collective memory; yet even our own memory errs at times, and no real memory extends beyond three generations. There are written sources, but each one of those might easily prove a forgery. There are material remnants of archaeological nature, but they may be misadated and misinterpreted.
Astronomy is precise by definition, and a historical dating that can be calculated from information about eclipses should satisfy any researcher. Yet the XIX century astronomers did not use the lunar tidal friction value in the equations of lunar motion, which would make ancient lunar eclipses appear several hours off the mark and relocate completely several total eclipses of the sun geographically (assuming tidal friction value has remained the same all the time but there is no reason to believe it hasn't). How could XIX century calculations have conformed to consensual history?
I must say that a methodical recalculation of ancient eclipse datings shall invariably bring surprises; in the unlikely case these datings are correct, we shall prove the existence of erratic changes in telluric rotation over the last 4,000 years instead. Both possibilities are highly alarming.
Fomenko demonstrates the incompatibility between consensual history and modern astronomy. This incompatibility is a sad fact. (He exposes a number of other contentious issues as well, but those do not fall into my professional scope). Which is more reliable - history or hard-boiled scientific facts? Science cannot afford subjectivity; most of us would feel the same way about history as well.
Chronological problems are very serious indeed; Fomenko offers a viable solution to most of them, and a radical one at that - a "Copernican revolution" of history, no less. I am not using the term to predict the final and total victory of his version; that is a matter for a multitude of scientific and scholarly discussions to come. But the contradiction between history and astronomy that becomes graver with the day cannot and must not be tolerated, in the best interests of both history and the theory of telluric rotation.
Dr.PhD B. Lukacs

5 out of 5 stars

Revolution in Chronology? March 20, 2005
42 out of 57 found this review helpful

This book speaks it out loud and clear: history is mostly fiction.

The author, literally rips consensual perception of the history to shreds, provides scientific evidence to his theories. Let's shrug it off as ridiculous. After all, we know everything about history. Our sources? Egyptian, Roman and Greek, but mostly Roman. Well, for the most part. Give or take a few hundred inconsistencies which are to be blamed on the ignorance of the scribes. Good heavens, our Roman sources are just as thin and ephemeral and mostly cooked by humanists-upstarts. Where does our knowledge of history really come from? Shall we stop and think for a minute?

Yet another crackpot or conspiracy theory? A quote:

"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".

Neither crackpot nor conspiracy. Albeit Academician Fomenko is Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, his book is quite readable for a layman. Five stars for an overdue revolution in chronology!

PS: Prof.Dr.Fomenko adds insult to injury : vol.2 of his "History..", isbn 2913621066 is actually out at last.
He refers to the Middle Ages as the "Antiquity" and proves mutual superimposition of the Second and the Third Roman Empire, both of which become identified as the respective kingdoms of Israel and Judah. Furthermore, he asserts that the famous reform of the Occidental Church in the XI century by "Pope Gregory Hildebrand" was the reflection of the XII century reforms of Byzantine emperor Andronicus who in his turn identifies with Jesus Christ. The Trojan war counted by Homer happened only as late as of the XIII century A.D. and the great poet actually lived in XIV century A.D.

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