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According to New Chronology, the traditional chronology consists of four overlapping copies of the " true " chronology, which lasted 350 years, shifted back in time by significant intervals ( integer multiples of 350 years ), with some further revisions.

All events and characters conventionally dated earlier than 11th century are fictional, and represent " phantom reflections " of actual Middle Ages events and characters, brought about by intentional or accidental mis-datings of historical documents.

Before the invention of printing, accounts of the same events by different eyewitnesses were sometimes retold several times before being written down, then often went through multiple rounds of translating and copyediting.

Names were translated, mispronounced and misspelled to the point where they bore little resemblance to originals.

According to Fomenko, this led early chronologists to believe or choose to believe that those accounts described different events and even different countries and time periods.

Fomenko justifies this approach by the fact that, in many cases, the original documents are simply not available: Fomenko claims that all the history of the ancient world is known to us from manuscripts that date from the 15th century to the 18th century, but describe events that allegedly happened thousands of years before, the originals regrettably and conveniently lost.

For example, the oldest extant manuscripts of monumental treatises on Ancient Roman and Greek history, such as Annals and Histories, are conventionally dated ca.

AD 1100, more than a full millennium after the events they describe, and they did not come to scholars ' attention until the 15th century.

According to Fomenko, the 15th century is probably when these documents were first written.