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Roman chronology is basically the foundation of the entire edifice of global chronology.
An imaginary foundation!
Despite its numerous gaps and inconsistencies, Roman history is the best-documented field of ancient history, and thus a reference scale of a paramount importance.
But how well do we know the actual date of the city's foundation?
The question makes more sense than it might seem to originally for several reasons.
Firstly, Rome is supposed to have been founded by the Trojans who had to flee after the fall of Troy.
However, there are lots of different opinions as to when that happened exactly, and the datings offered are scattered over the range of five hundred years.
Some claim Rome to have been founded by Aeneas and Ulysses shortly after Troy had fallen; others are of the opinion that there was an entire dynasty that ruled for 400 years between the fall of Troy and the foundation of Rome.
What do modern historians really say about the correct chronology of the Ancient Rome when they do not have to produce textbook-friendly output?
The following: "Neither Diodorus nor Livy possess a correct chronology .
. . we cannot trust the fasti, which tell us nothing about who was made consul in which year, or the cloth writings that led Licinius Marcus and Tubero to contradictory conclusions.
The most trustworthy documentation is the kind that turns out to be much more recent forgeries after in-depth analysis".
This book will change your perception of History forever!
What if Ancient Rome, Greece and Egypt were invented during Renaissance?
What if The Old Testament was a rendition of events of the Middle Ages?
What if Jesus Christ was born in 1053 and crucified in 1086 AD?
Sounds Unbelievable?
Not after you've read "History: Fiction or Science?"
by Anatoly Fomenko, the leading mathematician of our time.
Due to the controversy and the dubiety of all these mediaeval computations, the "Genesis dating", for instance, varies greatly from document to document.
Let us quote the main examples: 5969 b.c. - the Antiochian dating according to Theophilus 5508 b.c. - the Byzantine dating, also known as "The Constantinople version"; 5493 b.c. - Alexandrian, the Annian era, also 5472 b.c. or 5624 b.c.
; 4004 b.c. - according to Usher, a Hebraic dating; 5872 b.c. - the so-called "dating of the seventy interpreters"; 4700 b.c. - Samarian; 3761 b.c. - Judaic; 3491 b.c. - according to Hieronymus; 5199 b.c. - according to Eusebius of Caesarea; 5500 b.c. - according to Hippolytus and Sextus Julius Africanus; 5515 b.c., also 5507 b.c. - according to Theophilus; 5551 b.c. - according to Augustine; As we can see, this temporal reference point, considered fundamental for the ancient chronology, fluctuates within the span of 2,100 years.
We have only quoted the most famous examples here.
It is expedient to know that there are about two hundred various versions of the "Genesis date" in existence.
This book will change your perception of History forever!
What if Ancient Rome, Greece and Egypt were invented during Renaissance?
What if The Old Testament was a rendition of events of the Middle Ages?
What if Jesus Christ was born in 1053 and crucified in 1086 AD?
Sounds Unbelievable?
Not after you've read "History: Fiction or Science?"
by Anatoly Fomenko, the leading mathematician of our time.