Introduction
Headlines
The headlines below can give you only an overall impression of the outreach of our debate. They are of course shocking, but every single line is the result of detailed analysis and years of research. Some of the discoveries could be presented as follows:
- There is no true historical date before the 14th century - all need a critical scrutiny.
- Far less than two thousand years have elapsed since the Roman Empire.
- The Christian Church as an institution existes only since the Middle Ages.
- The Bible, as we know it, was written in the 15th century.
- The first complete printed edition of the Talmud was produced at the time of Zwingli's Reformation (Venice 1519-23)
- Christianism, Jewish faith and Islam emerged more or less at the same time.
- Most of the Greek and Roman authors are literary creations of the Renaissance.
- The Egyptian and the Mesopotamic Empires lasted at best some hundred years.
- Several cosmic catastrophes - at least one in the last thousand years - have affected our calendar.
- The chronology of other civilisations, as the Chinese and Indian, has been adapted to the European.
- An important part of the monuments in our museums are fakes.
- Original buildings, artistic works and paintings often tell us something different from their modern interpretation.
- As a rule, manuscripts are the most easily faked artefacts, but also stone engravings can be faked or wrongly interpreted.
- "Classical" languages as Latin, Ancient Greek and Classical Arabic are late creations.
These headlines may offer an idea about the central subject of our debate, namely the Ancient History, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. We focus mainly on the civilisations in the European-Mediterranean space, which includes the Arab world, but are not at all opposed to do research in other parts of the world. Of course, all fields a touched: archaeology, literature, architecture, numismatics, history of the religions, philology, astronomy... and even the evolution of humankind and astrophysics.
Here arises a question : Are we just talking about personal beliefs or can this far-reaching debate be conducted with scholarly practices? The answer is yes - this is a strictly scholarly debate and scholarly methods must apply at every stage.