The new monumental oeuvre by A. T. Fomenko, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, literally rips our perception of the history of humankind to shreds, providing some incredibly sound scientific materials as evidence to his theories. The "experienced reader" shall naturally shrug off this rather straightforward suggestion of ours as ridiculous. After all, we know everything about history. Our sources? Egyptian, Roman and Greek, but mostly Roman. Well, for the most part. Give or take a few hundred inconsistencies which are to be blamed on the ignorance of the scribes. Good heavens, our Roman sources are just as thin and ephemeral. Where does our knowledge of history really come from? Shall we stop and think for a minute?Yet another crackpot theory? Most probably. It contradicts everything we ever read in our textbooks in school. It must be rubbish. However, Garry Kasparov, the world chess champion (in case someone needs to be reminded) says the following about these venerable sources of knowledge that we are accustomed to trusting unconditionally in his foreword to the first volume of this edition:" . . . reading history textbooks is by no means sufficient; one has to analyse the "historical evidence" that one is offered critically, using one's common sense, as it were." We shall give several more choice quote from Kasparov's preface to the Book of Heresies (as modern historians like to refer to it informally: "Everything keeps on changing, we see constant evolution -- from Columbus to the landing on the Moon, from crossbows to nuclear bombs. Forwards and upwards. However, the traditional ancient history tells us of periods when humanity apparently remained dormant for centuries -- "ancient" Egypt, the mediaeval "Dark Ages" -- whole epochs of utter stasis in human thinking"."The Romans couldn't so much as master steel metallurgy, and that is hardly an invention at all, it just requires the diligent work and experimentation of a number of generations".

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