The New Chronology of Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko is an attempt to rewrite world chronology, based on his conclusion that world chronology as we know it today is flawed, put together by unscientific methods.  The ideas of Fomenko are a direct continuation of earlier theories of Nikolai Morozov.

In his revision, Fomenko claims that our chronology is elongated by around 1000 years, by misdating medieval manuscripts to earlier times; for example, some manuscripts which describe history of Rome around 1000 AD were, according to Fomenko, misdated as being thousand years older than they actually are, and so are today believed to describe history of Rome around 1 AD which didn't actually happen. The end result is that events which history claims to have happened 2000 years ago are copies of events which happened 1000 years ago. As another example, Fomenko claims that Plato, Plotinus and Gemistus Pletho are one same person - according to him, some texts by or about Pletho were misdated and today believed to be texts by or about Plotinus or Plato.

Fomenko is a well-respected mathematician. His views on history are, however, commonly regarded as pseudoscience.

External links

• http://www.revisedhistory.org/Investigation-eng-history.htm
• http://www.univer.omsk.su/foreign/fom/fom.htm
• http://lib.ru/FOMENKOAT/engltr.txt