Does anyone know anything about this?

[everythingsxen]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=umpfjhhkWTA

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/2913621058

It's about a book called History: Fiction or Science?

I have never heard of this, at all, it sounds intriguing (if true), however I am rather skeptical and doing research about it. However, if anyone here has read this or has any debunking links or links proving it, lemme know.

[everythingsxen]

1. Thanks for all the insightful replies!

[taterguy]

2. You're welcome. We're happy to help

[everythingsxen]

3. Kick in hope of some sort of reply...

[Droopy]

4. Just watched the youtube advertisement

I'd find it hard to believe that every historian in the world was wrong about our complete history and some dude just happens to have all the right answers all of the sudden.

[everythingsxen]

5. *shrug*

I really have no idea. For a very long time I have held the position that I have no way of knowing what happened in the past because I wasn't there. Not that I am a paranoid doubter of all history, just that for all I know there were Nazi's riding dinosaurs because I wasn't there to see it (note: I am not saying that I actually think there were Nazi's riding dinosaurs, I am just saying Nazi's riding dinosaurs is pretty goddamn funny.)

I think that it is "possible"; but I haven't really found anything that debunks the work, all I have found is it's lack of notice...

[Droopy]

6. If it's the way I think it is

It's probably not being taken very seriously and thus the lack of notice. But I don't know...check it out and tell us what you think. It does look interesting I'll give it that much.

[AlienGirl]

8. What a conveeeeenient position that is...

:evilgrin:

[everythingsxen]

7. Late night kick....

[hfojvt]

9. First I heard of it

It sounds kinda bunky, as summarized on the first Amazon review - "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."

I would think that the timeline of Popes alone would dispute his thesis same thing with Emperors of the Holy Roman Empire which went basically from Charlemagne's time (800 AD) to 1803, but I could not tell you how those timelines were put together, or when.

[hickman]

10. Jesus was born in 1056AD?

So he was just being born when William the Conqueror was funding crusades to take back Jerusalem for christians and the Jesuits just fudged the numbers? And managed to infiltrate every surviving document from the Domesday book on to skew history? Did Fred Phelps write this? Were all humans so stupid for hundreds of years that they had no memory? Or, wait, maybe the Jesuits have spent 1000 years brainwashing everyone to ignore what was going on around them, except that the Jesuits didn't show up till 1540.

[everythingsxen]

11. I dunno...

I am not making any arguement for or against the book, I am not making any judgements until I read it or hear from someone who has read it.

It sounds mildly insane, but the world is pretty insane these days. :crazy: