Reply #37: interesting article, unfortunately

[InvisibleBallots]

I think they have some things wrong. First of all, the theory is based on Instanbul being the capital of an empire, and the last I checked Istanbul was in Turkey, not Russia :)

Also, this article doesn't dispute any of the work done - i.e., it makes no mention of our conventional chronology, where it comes from, doesn't discuss Fomenko's dynastic funtion research, nor the astronomical data.

Instead, you get spin and personal attacks, such as: "denouncing New Chronology as the work of charlatans set on robbing Russia and the rest of the world of their past" and all these scares like: "TO the alarm of Russian intellectuals..."

The entire article is nothing but a personal attack on the motivations of the researchers, and the author obviously didn't understand the theories that the new chronologists are suggesting.

That's okay - it is becoming "increasingly fashionable" - now not only is the research being done in Russia, but also Germany and recently Canada. Now that non-Russian mathmaticians and even some traditional historians are researching it, I assume that personal attacks on the authors will become less common :)

Even if Fomenko's theory is 100% false, his criticism of the conventional chronology hasn't been answered yet...