Were Jesus Christ and Constantine the same person? Was Roman and Egyptian history completely fabricated in the 16th century A.D.? Were the pyramids constructed in the 3rd century A.D.?
I’m fascinated by Anatoly Fomenko. Here are the basic axioms of his research:
Chronology is the basis of history; Human evolution has always been linear, gradual and irreversible; The “cyclic” nature of human civilization is a myth, likewise all the gaps, duplicates, “dark ages” and “renaissances” that we know from consensual history are fantasy and hoax; The accumulation of geographical knowledge as reflected in cartography is a gradual and irreversible process; The closer in time is a given manuscript to the events described the less distortions it contains; There is no “useless” information in authentic ancient sources.
He’s also no slouch with a pencil either. Here are a couple of his drawings taken from the out-of-print Mathematical Impressions (1990, Rhode Island)