Anatoly Fomenko - The New Chronology Part 1

 

I want to introduce another interesting person, a Russian called Anatoly Fomenko. With his group of mathematicians, they considered revisions to the dating of historical events. Hence New Chronology.

There are two major ways Anatoly Fomenko’s New Chronology theory is structured in print: a foundational 7-volume set and a much larger set.

The Seven-Volume Set (The "First Canon")

Often referred to by Fomenko and his team as the "First Canon", this 7-volume epic titled History: Fiction or Science? functions as the official, unified textbook of the New Chronology. 

It serves as a comprehensive synthesis of all the mathematical, astronomical, and statistical research compiled by Fomenko and his collaborator Gleb Nosovsky up until 2002.

The expanded set will be discussed at a later stage. Suffice to say, it's expanded in scope to cover findings up to the present.

The Views of The Scientific Communities To Fomenko's New Chronology.

As shown in this entry in Wikipedia:

(Note: While Fomenko utilizes his background as a prominent Moscow State University mathematician to write these books, mainstream historians, archaeologists, and astronomers worldwide universally reject the New Chronology as a pseudoscientific conspiracy theory.) 

The Collision of Two Different Methodologies

From a pure standpoint of intellectual history, the breakdown in the "spirit of inquiry" around Fomenko happens because two entirely different academic worlds are talking past each other:

Fomenko approaches history as a hard scientist and topologist. His core premise in Volume 1 is that history should be treated as a data problem governed by strict mathematical, astronomical, and statistical laws. In his view, if the math doesn't check out, the narrative text must be wrong.

Mainstream historians, however, view history through a hermeneutic and forensic framework. They evaluate thousands of overlapping lines of physical evidence—not just written text, but numismatics (coins), linguistics, stratigraphy (archaeological layers), and dendrochronology (tree-ring dating). 

How It Began For Anatoly Fomenko

Fomenko's journey began when he stumbled into this field - and why his group behaves the way it does.

A story of a NASA scientist reveals the core mechanism behind the New Chronology.

The NASA Scientist & The Lunar Parameter (\(D^{\prime \prime }\)) Anomalies

The starting point began with the scientist Robert Russell Newton, a highly respected physicist, astronomer, and supervisor at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (which did extensive work for NASA). 

In the 1970s, R.R. Newton mapped out the \(D^{\prime \prime }\) parameter—a variable that measures the acceleration of the Earth-Moon system over time.

• The Anomaly: When Newton plugged the dates of ancient solar and lunar eclipses (from traditional Scaligerian timelines) into his equations, the data went haywire. It showed a massive, sudden, and geometrically violent "leap" in the Moon's acceleration between 700 AD and 1300 AD.
• The "Low Gravity" Solution: Because traditional dates are considered unshakeable dogma in history, R.R. Newton concluded that the anomaly had to be physical. He postulated that mysterious, "non-gravitational forces" (or mysterious fluctuations in the Earth-Moon system) must have temporarily occurred during the Middle Ages.
• Fomenko's Reaction: As a topologist and mathematician, Fomenko looked at this and essentially said: R. R. Newton's math is flawless, which means the variables (the dates) themselves maybe wrong. Fomenko applied the revised timeline ideas of Russian scientist Nikolai Morozov, shifted the ancient eclipses forward into the late Middle Ages, and found that the \(D^{\prime \prime }\) parameter flattened out into a perfectly smooth, mathematically beautiful line.

To a mathematician, a solution that smoothly solves a broken curve feels like a profound discovery. This is precisely what convinced Fomenko that the traditional timeline was built on a foundational error.

Another Anomaly - Anno Mundi (The Date Of Creation)

Another anomaly to whet your appetite in this Introductory Post (more anomalies in history will be covered in future posts) is Anno Mundi (The Date of Creation). 

Fomenko cited this anomaly as an uncertainty affecting the dating of Anno Mundi. Some examples of the many dates calculated include:

• 5508 BC – The Byzantine Era (Constantinopolitan Calendar): This is the date historically used by the Eastern Orthodox Church and medieval Russia. Fomenko notes that this baseline heavily shaped Russian administrative and religious texts until Peter the Great shifted Russia to the Julian AD system in 1700.
• 5500 BC – Julius Africanus: An early 3rd-century Christian traveler and historian who calculated this round number.
• 5493 BC – The Alexandrian Era (Annianus of Alexandria): This date was favored by many early Egyptian and North African Christian scholars.
• 5199 BC – Eusebius of Caesarea: The early Church historian whose chronological tables formed the bedrock of later Western European histories.

•  4004 BC – Archbishop James Ussher: The famous Anglo-Irish prelate who calculated Creation down to the specific night of October 22/23, 4004 BC. This became the standard timeline printed in the margins of many King James Bibles.

• 3952 BC – Venerable Bede: The famous 8th-century English monk and historian who adjusted the dates based on the Hebrew text rather than the Greek Septuagint.
• 3949 BC – Joseph Scaliger: The very architect of standard history whom Fomenko is critiquing calculated this as the true structural anchor for his global timeline.

• 3761 BC – The Hebrew Calendar (Anno Mundi): The standard rabbinic date calculated in the Seder Olam Rabbah, which remains the anchor for the modern Jewish calendar system.
• 3268 BC – John Clement (and various Roman Catholic scholars): Some later Western European calculations pushed the date forward to the 33rd century BC.
• 3000 BC – Philoxenus of Mabug (and various Syriac traditions): This rounded estimate represents the lowest end of the standard biblical spectrum mentioned in these collections.

The Date of Creation was taken as 3949 BCE by Joseph Scaliger in 1583 CE. How he arrived at 3949 BCE as Anno Mundi is an a wonderful story. I will cover it in another post.

Do realize that that is officially Year 1. Events in all other countries in the world history (whether you agree or not) is converted to a year in that Julian Calendar.

(With assistance from DeepSeek).