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Summary: Hard to believe
Review: The book claims that Jesus was born and crucified in the 11th Century. If that be the case, how can the author explain the numerous references to Jesus and Christians in the Koran, which was written in the 7th Century? There is even a whole chapter named after Mary!Can I have the $10,000 from the publishers now please?!
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Summary: the dating of turin shroud is correct?
Review: The dark ages were dark, but not so dark that a 1000 years went missing. too many writings, books, buildings and navylogs contain dates too bridge most of the period between the fall of the roman empire and the renaissance. when did people collectively adapt to a fake date?
5 stars for starting a discussion
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Summary: Radiocarbon dating has precision of +/-1800 years at best
Review: There are a host of problems with radiocarbon dating. It assumes the isotope always decayed at the same rate. You simply cannot make those assumptions and call yourself a scientist. In many instances, items with known dates were given to several labs to be tested and the dates came back way off. So far off, in fact, to make radiodating a joke. It also does not take into consideration a different prehistoric atmosphere which would inhibit the sun's radiation from hitting the earth, thereby making radiocarbondating extremely tentative.
It relies on too many assumptions to make it scientifically accurate.
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Summary: boringly stupid premise
Review: There's more to historic truth than c-14 dating (though that is usually reliable, let's set it aside for a second). The spread of cultures, religions, and especially languages, and their evolution, that alone would be able to disprove such horrendously exploitative "study". File it alternately under conspiracy theories, sub-heading: hopeless cases, or charlatanerie, sub-heading: poisonous.
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Summary: we have explosive
Review: This book is a living demonstration of the fact that we can no longer keep ignoring all the awkward and gaping inconsistencies in what the author calls "Scaligerian history" - history as we know it nowadays. The initial reaction was shock and disbelief, but the author's "heresies" are all backed up by sound, solid and indisputable mathematic calculations. This is truly explosive material, and I am looking forward to new releases from Fomenko
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Summary: we have explosive
Review: This book is a living demonstration of the fact that we can no longer keep ignoring all the awkward and gaping inconsistencies in what the author calls "Scaligerian history" - history as we know it nowadays. The initial reaction was shock and disbelief, but the author's "heresies" are all backed up by sound, solid and indisputable mathematic calculations. This is truly explosive material, and I am looking forward to new releases from Fomenko
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Summary: A Pretty Wild Theory
Review: This book presents a wildly radical restructuring of the timeline of world history. It is written by an outsider to the world of historical scholarship: Fomenko is a non-historian (a renowned mathematician) and an non-Westerner (from Russia.)
Fomenko's theory says, basically, that everything we are told about history pre-1600 is BS. Ancient history is, according to Fomenko, based on evidence quote-unquote "discovered" since the 15th century and arranged into a spurious standard timeline in the 18th century. (In some cases, the evidence was discovered much more recently: some Eastern religious texts were only uncovered in the 20th century.) Fomenko collates this evidence to argue that all those ancient chronicles are different versions of events which really happened roughly between 1000 AD and 1400 AD. The key event in Fomenko's timeline is the life of Christ (who was born in 1053 AD rather than 6BC, Fomenko believes.) After a relatively short-lived Eurasian empire disintegrated, each nation made up their own version of the empire's history, and generally each new version of the story was set farther back into the past than the previous one. (The newest version is the Hindu Krishna myth which is set about 10,000 years before the present day.)
This is an appealing theory, since it eliminates the various "dark ages" which blemish the conventional chronology. On the other hand, this is an appalling theory, since it creates one big dark age extending from the beginning of time till 900 AD or so.
The book is translated from the Russian. There is no index, and the bibliography is rather annoyingly arranged in the original Russian alphabetical order (so for example, B's and V's are mixed together.) But the translation is extremely readable, more readable than most historical works originally written in English.
This is the first book in a projected 7-volume set.
The online bookstore entries for this volume rather amusingly show easily history gets mixed up. The translator is someone named Michael Jagger who is almost certainly not the singer Mick Jagger (whose full name is Michael Phillip Jagger.) However, some online bookstores do list Mick Jagger as a coauthor. Amazon.com says the translator is someone named Mike Jagupov. This is hard enough to keep straight while the singer is still alive, and a few decades from now, I am sure that many sources will say that the legendary Rolling Stones frontman translated this book into English.
(I have no idea if Mick Jagger speaks Russian or not. Although he is an educated man--- an alumnus of the University of London--- one would assume that he doesn't. Certainly, in all the millions of words which have been written about him, no one has commented on his knowledge of the Russian language. And, if he actually was the person who translated this controversial text into English, the book's publishers would presumably be aggressively advertising that fact.)
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Summary: $10,000 reward for adequate refutation of the New Chronology
Review: To 'reader from Europe' and to all prospective pretenders to $10,000 cash reward.
Do not take this matter lightly. A horde or Russian historians could not produce in 20 years of ongoing hysteria a SINGLE valid counterargument.
Cases built on 'IT IS WRONG BECAUSE IT CAN NEVER BE' or 'IT CAN NEVER BE BECAUSE IT IS WRONG' logic are not admitted.
Present Your case in academic manner, develop your argument with both method and detail.
Do remember that Your adversary is a leading mathematician of our time who presented his theory in a irrefutable manner.
Remember also:
Archaeological, dendrochronological, paleographical and carbon methods of dating of ancient sources and artifacts are both non-exact and contradictory, therefore there is not a single piece of firm written evidence or artifact that could be reliably and independently dated earlier than the XI century.
So, buy the book, study it and prove how and why the author is wrong. The odds are that after doing just that you will withdraw from the contest.
PS to 'reader from Europe': do you see why your Coran-Jesus counterargument is not valid?
Thank you for your time
Publishers
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Summary: A real eye-opener!
Review: Too bad, but "History: Fiction or Science?" cannot be dismissingly classified neither as special "forgery" for American public nor as conspiracy thriller. It looks and smells as academic research dedicated to facts of long term distortion of history and manipulation of chronology. Fomenko's is a tall order; small wonder he's shot at. A real eye-opener!
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Summary: History updated
Review: Very informative and somehow thrilling - to learn that our entire history we're so accustomed to has been manipulated with during centuries! This "tradition" was established only in 15-17th centuries by Scaliger and Petavius as a result of attempts to construct the global chronology of Europe and Asia at that time. History of Antiquity was artificially pro-longed backward and became much older than it was in reality. The author persuasively reveals hundreds of such manipulation facts which are absolutely convincing - unless you still believe that the Earth is flat.
I really did enjoy this heavy volume that has been translated from Russian into a brilliant Oxford-English, with its hundreds of illustrations and tables, with its undeniable facts and steel logic.
This book is eons away from all these charlatan writings we so often encounter on overcrowded bookshelves. It might not only change one's view on our past, this book is also capable of updating the course of history.
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