ABOUT

When I first met a guy who said that Roman Empire could've never existed the way it's portrayed because of technological impossibility, I didn't believe him. I remember that feeling: it's uncomfortable to even think about it. It's like somebody tells you that your friend is a fraud. No wonder: we are taught by school and Hollywood to love Greeks, Roman Empire, Vikings, Knights, etc. History is a Bible of modern society, they do their best to make us feel for those stories and characters.

This isn't about OMG, they lied to us! but a reconstruction of what happened 50+ years ago. It has been a hobby of mine for few years, on top of my other hobbies: intercultural studies, comparative linguistics, history of tech, etc. The blog is a braindump, to consolidate several years of studies in a compact form. Updates happen, there is no log.

BRIEF SUMMARY OF MY FINDINGS

• 2000 years ago it was still a Stone Age
• "Sumer" is Persian Empire that started in Mesopotamia, they invented hieroglyphics which are the origin of Chinese and Egyptian ones, also cuneiform and "Phoenician" alphabet
• Mesopotamia crushed (overpopulation, soil exhaustion, water scarcity) in 600+ which lead to violent takeover of the area by local Semitic people (aka Islam, Akkad, Assyria)
• Europe was colonized by Persians/Phoenicians/Arabs since 700+ - Greeks and Slavs first, later Italy, Germany, - probably something similar happened in Central Asia, India and China
• Byzantium was the original Rome, a Persian province, de-facto independent since 900+, broke up with Persia in 1054, invited European mercenaries (crusades), Vatican stole their name and History after 1453
• Saladin, Seljuks, Mongols, Timurids, Ottomans are just mercenaries of Persian Empire, used to reestablish domination in Near East and expand North/East (Russia, Central Asia, China)
• colonization/conquest of France, Spain, Britain by Normans and Italians starts in 1300+
• Catholic Church gains power and Christianity becomes their main product in 1500+
• HRE conquest and convertion (aka Reformation) of France, Spain, Britain in 1500-1700
• Japan established by Portugal/Spain in 1500+, like Haiti, but with Korean slaves, later rebelled or was intercepted by Dutch/British
• China's last dynasty is the only one, country was formally united in 1800+, de-facto after WWII

WARNING

Since official History sells particular ideas, it may seem that my theories sell some as well. No. Please don't interpret this blog as spiritual/political text or "alternative history".

OTHERS

I found Russian blogger/vlogger Dmitry Galkovsky, who says Roman Empire didn't exist 2000 years ago, and some of it is mythology. Later I've learned about Morozov/Fomenko/Nosovsky New Chronology and found some other Russian bloggers who were doubting official historical narratives, chronology, e.g. Alexander Tamansky. I also encountered several more or less famous/popular personalities talking about the same: Gunnar Heinsohn (on youtube), Yefim Galperin, Garry Kasparov.

You might wonder why most of them are from ex-USSR. I am as well. In 1988-1991 all of ex-USSR learned, the hard way, that most of popular conspiracy theories were true. As a result we are, in general, more open-minded and free-thinking when it comes to revision of core cultural values. Western society never went through a comparable ideological breakdown. For an American or Western European the very idea that somebody would lie about something as harmless/useless as History sounds paranoid.

Galkovsky/Fomenko are not exactly pure researchers like me, they do sell agenda/sects with the criticism of the official history/chronology. They do, intentionally, keep the mythology of history almost intact, just alter it here/there, and move it in time. I do disagree with them and others on many things. Yet the important message that we all share is that History is partially made up and overstretched into the past, because History is propaganda/religion delivery channel.

SOURCES

All you read here is derived from something you can find online, I did my best to link the sources in every sentence. Most of this study was only possible thanks to all the materials made public in recent 20 years, which explains why you only find it here. Not many people looked into this yet.