Anatoly Fomenko and his theories on history

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unJD7Z2AAzw

I read his books. Simple and very plausible.

Russian and German.

Originally posted by Imperator Invictus Yes, he is more than a little over the edge. We had a thread going about his chronology a couple months back, I was going to give you the link but found it locked. It must have gotten a little heated. The sad thing is there are a lot of people who believe that garbage. Not only is it garbage, it also represents a very narrow view of world history. Most of his work only concerns western history and ignores eastern history, like those of China and India. Unlike Fomenko's tale, the actual real history can be verified throughout all cultures of the world. From Chinese accounts, we find records of Parthia, and through Parthia we find records links Rome.

Yes, he is more than a little over the edge. We had a thread going about his chronology a couple months back, I was going to give you the link but found it locked. It must have gotten a little heated. The sad thing is there are a lot of people who believe that garbage. Not only is it garbage, it also represents a very narrow view of world history. Most of his work only concerns western history and ignores eastern history, like those of China and India. Unlike Fomenko's tale, the actual real history can be verified throughout all cultures of the world. From Chinese accounts, we find records of Parthia, and through Parthia we find records links Rome.   I've got an impression, that most of his work published in Russian and dedicated to the Russian history. What about his mathematical methods? As well garbage?

Edited by Imperator Invictus - 18-Sep-2006 at 16:50

How do You explain the "dark ages", for example?

Hard to sum. However I recommend you to forget about the word "dark" and try to see how society evolved in the last 50 years. Analyse other better known historical periods and after a while you may infer evolution of a society (under internal and external factors) is common but also complex thing to happen.

I'd rather not took it too serious.
Fomenko doesn't belong to Russian oficial historiography and his ideas will hardly ever be taken seriously.
Shall I discover a great secret to you if I tell that he had made a great deal of money with his books?
He made them scandalous deliberately, I bet. They have nothing to do with history at all but they draw public attention (just what was necessary for the author).
The simpliest way to make people listen to you is to cry: "People! They (in Fomenko's case - historians) are cheating you! Listen to me and I'll tell you the truth! You have a right to know it!"
Nobody among the people I know believed in his "theory" but almost everybody considered his duty to buy his book just to be abreast of scandal.
Funny and sad!
BTW how do you know about him? Are his books translated?      

Can you imagine a handfull of Jesuit building in 200 years the pyramids, the long wall, the Roman forum (an then destroying it) and writting the Bible, the history of the crusade and Aristotle's work (plus all its medieval commentators) and managing to convince everyone that this is the correct history. All that in secret! Gee these Jesuits have to be from some other planet!

Never heard about Uwe Topper. Thank You for the interesting links.

Hah, I was just reading about him the other day, and I was wondering "now what if some nut came to AE spouting this nonsense, how would everyone react?"

I mean, Immanuel Velikovsky and Gavin Menzies strain the bounds of credulity. This guy is nuts.