Well, we did say we’d try to promote alternative viewpoints. I’m more than a little incredulous towards this one, but it did at least make me consider where my incredulity was coming from.

Anatoly Fomenko’s series of books History: Fiction or Science proposes that all pre-16th century history, as we’re taught it, is completely false. He argues that no methods of dating (such as carbon-14) are accurate enough to reliably date items in the timeframe of human history; instead he relies upon statistical and astronomical methods. His conclusions? That all human civilisation, all buildings and artefacts, date back only as far as 800 AD. Ancient history is a mixture of lies, fiction and misinterpretations of primary sources. Oh, and Jesus was a Byzantine emperor who lived in the eleventh century (his name was Andronikos).

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