Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko is a Russian mathematician and professor at Moscow State University. He has written extensively on the "New Chronology", a historical theory based on works of Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov*. Fomenko claims to have discovered that many historical events do not correspond mathematically with the dates they are supposed to have occurred on. He asserts from this that all of ancient history (including the history of Greece, Rome, and Egypt) is just a reflection of events that occurred in the Middle Ages, and that all of Chinese and Arab history are fabrications of 17th and 18th century Jesuits. Fomenko also disputes more objective dating techniques such as dendrochronology and radiocarbon dating.
His book, "History: Fiction or Science?" is an explosive tractate on history that challenges the dominant historical discourses, and which asks questions such as: Who invented Antiquity and Dark Ages? When were these periods invented, and why?
Fomenko argues that our consensual world history was manufactured in Europe in the 16th to 19th centuries, and is the result of a political agenda to disseminate a fictional narrative of an ancient world that serves the dominant powers of that period, but in reality (according to Fomenko):
The European aristocracy supported the myth of the Ancient World to justify its claims to countries they ruled
Catholics and Protestants supported the myth of the Ancient World to justify their claims of being more ancient and to separate themselves from Eurasian orthodoxy in the countries ruled by the European aristocracy, and
Scientists supported the myth of the Ancient World as a safe cover for their heretic research that produced results contrary to the tenets of Christianity. They justified their discoveries by authorities of ancient scientists they invented and used as pseudonyms.
*Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov was a Russian communist revolutionary, academic, pioneer of aviation in Russia, and at age 88, briefly served as the oldest known combatant of World War II.
After the October Revolution in 1917, Morozov ran the P. S. Lesgaft Institute of Natural Sciences in Petrograd (Leningrad), a position which he kept until his death at the age of 92. Based on the astronomical records such as the Almagest, he speculated that much of human history has been falsified. His theories about the chronology of the Middle East and Israel before the first century BCE later attracted the attention of Anatoly Fomenko, who based his own New Chronology upon them.
[though the above descriptions begs the question of why scientists would need cover from heresy if the catholic/protestant clergy were themselves part of this conspiracy?]
