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Russian scientists recalculate dates in world history

MOSCOW. March 17 (Interfax) - Russian mathematicians argue that the generally accepted dating of events in world history is a mess and that civilization is a lot younger than it is believed to be, so that, for example, Jesus Christ was born in A.D. 1152 and crucified in 1185, they claim.

"The chronology of all historical events that we have been using until now was compiled in the 16th and 17th centuries. The reason for the errors of the chronographers of those times was that they used incorrect methods in compiling their system of dating and consequently obtained the wrong timing of historical events," Academician Anatoly Fomenko told a news conference at the Interfax headquarters on Thursday.

Fomenko and Gleb Nosovsky of Moscow State University have recalculated historical dates on the basis of what they say are new mathematical, statistical, and astronomical methods.