Historical revisionism

Historical revisionism is the reexamination of the accepted "facts" and interpretations of history, with an eye towards updating it with newly discovered, more accurate, and less biased information. Broadly, it is a skeptical approach, that history as it has been traditionally told may not be entirely accurate, and that perhaps an accurate history is as unobtainable as a dispassionate autobiography.

Other Examples

Other efforts at historical revision have not succeeded and may never succeed in winning such support, because they demand sweeping changes in our view of the past. Nevertheless, such attempts can be notable, if only for the audacity of their revisions:

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New Chronology

The New Chronology which holds that the events of what are known as the last 3,000 years occurred in either a much shorter or a much longer time frame. The most famous adherent of this theory, which was created by the mathematician Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko, is the chess champion Garry Kasparov.

Related Topics:
New Chronology - Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko - Garry Kasparov

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Heribert Illig

Heribert Illig believes the approximately 300 years between 614 and 911 are an invention and never happened. The basis of Illig's claims is the paucity of archaeological evidence that can be securely dated to this period known commonly as the "Dark Ages".

Related Topics:
Heribert Illig - Dark Ages

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