Alex(ei) of The Russian Dilettante's Weblog writes about a respected Russian mathematician Anatoly Fomenko and his controversial “new chronology of world history” – in which, for example, “Jesus ...

In October 2010, The Onion, America’s self-proclaimed finest satirical news source, ran this headline: “Historians Admit To Inventing Ancient Greeks.” The (again, satirical) piece reports that a ...

Like many other humanitarian disciplines, history is a science where it’s difficult to speak of the ultimate truth. Many people understand this – but Anatoly Fomenko (born in 1945), a Soviet-Russian ...

If you think you are about to celebrate the start of 2006, think again. The year might well be 942 -- or perhaps it's 1006. Who knows for sure? Because according to the so-called new chronology, our ...

TO the alarm of Russian intellectuals, a new Slavocentric history of the world that suggests Britain was once part of a Russian empire is attracting growing numbers of converts. The history, known as ...

I read an article recently about a man who says our current chronology is about a thousand years off and that the years between 500 to 1500 (to round it off) didn’t really happen. It’s a mistake made ...

HE may be an outstanding grandmaster and possess one of the brightest minds on the planet but Garry Kasparov's new obsession threatens to eclipse his genius for the game of chess. With the fervour of ...