New Chronology
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The term "New Chronology" can refer to any of a number of attempts to rewrite a conventional chronology
(the science of locating events in time):
Egyptian chronology
Chronology
Chronology is the science of arranging events in their order of occurrence in time, such as the use of a timeline or sequence of events. It is also "the determination of the actual temporal sequence of past events".Chronology is part of periodization...
(the science of locating events in time):
Egyptian chronologyEgyptian chronologyThe creation of a reliable chronology of Ancient Egypt is a task fraught with problems. While the overwhelming majority of Egyptologists agree on the outline and many of the details of a common chronology, disagreements either individually or in groups have resulted in a variety of dates offered...
- Revised Chronology, part of the theories of Immanuel VelikovskyImmanuel VelikovskyImmanuel Velikovsky was a Russian-born American independent scholar of Jewish origins, best known as the author of a number of controversial books reinterpreting the events of ancient history, in particular the US bestseller Worlds in Collision, published in 1950...
, which sought to explain various events in myth and legend scientifically; detailed in his book Ages in ChaosAges in ChaosAges in Chaos is a book by the controversial writer Immanuel Velikovsky, first published by Doubleday in 1952, which put forward a major revision of the history of the Ancient Near East, claiming that the histories of Ancient Egypt and Ancient Israel are five centuries out of step... - The Glasgow Chronology, a revision of Velikovsky's chronology developed initially 1978-1982
- The New Chronology (Rohl), a revision of the traditionally accepted chronology of ancient Egypt proposed by David RohlDavid RohlNew Chronology is the term used to describe an alternative Chronology of the ancient Near East developed by English Egyptologist David Rohl and other researchers beginning with A Test of Time: The Bible - from Myth to History in 1995...
Other
- The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended, a book by Isaac NewtonIsaac NewtonSir Isaac Newton PRS was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian, who has been "considered by many to be the greatest and most influential scientist who ever lived."...
- The writings of Nikolai Alexandrovich MorozovNikolai Alexandrovich MorozovNikolai Alexandrovich Morozov was a known Russian revolutionary who spent about 25 years in prison before turning his attention to various fields of science.- Revolutionary activities :...
- New Chronology (Fomenko)New Chronology (Fomenko)The New Chronology is a fringe theory in history, which argues that the conventional chronology is fundamentally flawed, that events attributed to antiquity such as the histories of Rome, Greece and Egypt actually occurred during the Middle Ages, more than a thousand years after the time to which...
, a proposition by Anatoly Fomenko that world history started roughly around AD 1000, and nearly all "ancient" history is actually the history of the same culture - The Phantom time hypothesisPhantom time hypothesisThe Phantom time hypothesis is a conspiracy theory developed by Heribert Illig in 1991. It proposes that there has been a systematic effort to make it appear that periods of history, specifically that of Europe during the Early Middle Ages exist, when they do not...
of Heribert Illig