Dr. Prof Anatoly Fomenko et dissect in Part I of 'History: Fiction or Science?' the Almagest of Ptolemy compiled allegedly in 150 a.d. and considered to be the cornerstone of classical history. Their report states: Almagest was compiled in XVI-XVII cy from astronomical data of IX-XVI cy. This presumably antediluvian tractate of Almagest catalogs 1028 observable stars with a fairly high precision of 10'-15' (arc minutes) of longitude. Now, the rotation of the Earth makes the night sky make a turn of 1 arc degree every four minutes. One arc degree consists of 60 arc minutes, which means that the sky rotation speed equals 15' (arc minutes) per one minute of time. Ptolemy's very precise measurements were simply too precise to have been performed by him with the existing time measurement instruments of II cy A.D., i.e. a sundial, a clepsydra (water jug with a hole), or a sand hourglass. None of these timekeeping/measuring contraptions has the precision to a minute. The publishers will pay a 10,000 dollars USA in cash to the first person who will not only declare but prove consistently, with adequate methods and in sufficient detail on the same or better academic level than Dr. Prof Anatoly T. Fomenko, Head of the Chair of the Differential Geometry of MSU and his team is wrong in their dating of Almagest. In Part II of 'History: Fiction or Science?' Dr. Fomenko et al are the first ever to successfully decode the allegedly ancient Egyptian horoscopes painted in Pharaoh's tombs of the Valley of Kings or cut in stone in Dendera and Esna for centuries considered impenetrable are decoded at last! All dates contained therein turn out definitely medieval and pertain to the XI cy a.d. the earliest. Well, how old is 'ancient' Egypt actually? Publisher bets 1$ that they pertain to VI cy A.D. Has the history of civilization been tampered with? Did events and eras such as the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, the Roman Empire, the Dark Ages, and the Renaissance, actually, occur within a very different chronology from what we've been told? It's highly unlikely that anyone told you before that there is not ONE single piece of firm written evidence or artifact that is reliable, independently, and irrefutably dated older than the 11th century. The intricate pack of figmental world history was entirely fabricated in the 16th-18th centuries on the 'firm' foundation laid down by Italian, French, German, and English 'scholars', idem white and black robe clergy, idem 'humanists' in 14th-15th centuries. Petrarca and Dante, Bracciolinni and Machiavelli, Giotto, Bernini, Da Vinci, and Michelangelo Corporations not only created immortal masterpieces exceedingly well paid by Roman Popes et al and Medici Princes of Florence but also mass-produced 'ancient' manuscripts, frescoes, statues very much in demand by the wealthy customers. Oxbridge scholars earned their daily bread & butter by cooking very Ancient Greece & Roman Empire history mostly from Italian ingredients. The Glorious Revolution in England has already taken place, the British Empire was in works and badly needed glorious predecessors like the Roman Empire. The French learned crowd made their encyclopedic cuisine of alleged Roman Republic history preparing the French minds for the Ideal Republic to come. The French Kings out of pure spite of all things English (!) made a 'successful' live test of Ideal Republic 1776 in British American colonies by helping American freedom fighters to free their lands from the British crown and to found the USA. British Empire paid back by helping French freedom fighters to make the dream of the French scholars come true, to found the French Republic in 1789, etc....Somehow very liberal King Louis XVI lost control, head, and crown, which certain Corsican Bouenaparté found in the gutter of the Revolution and became Napoleon I Emperor (!) of the French Republic (!!) etc..