# Help me locate this conspiracy-theory-ish thing I once found **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 27, 2013, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-locate-this-conspiracy-theory-ish-thing-i-once-found/674947 "2013-11-27T20:10:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2013, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-locate-this-conspiracy-theory-ish-thing-i-once-found/674947/1 "2013-11-27T20:10:43Z")
Years ago I encountered on the internet this idea that all of recorded history is actually simply mistakenly recounting the last few hundred years over and over again, and we’ve actually only been around for that long. I can’t remember any specifics but it’s something like our stories of the Roman Empire are actually garbled mis-tellings of the history of France in the 19th century, and stuff like that, applied to pretty much everything in history. Is this ringing a bell with anyone? ---
**Author:** ![Mithras](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mithras](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mithras)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2013, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-locate-this-conspiracy-theory-ish-thing-i-once-found/674947/2 "2013-11-27T20:20:59Z")
Sounds like this: [The New Chronology](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Chronology_(Fomenko-Nosovsky)) It seemed familiar to me, but I didn’t remember it off the top of my head. I got to it from [Wikipedia’s list of conspiracy theories.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conspiracy_theories) I had no idea that page existed, but I’ll be spending a good amount of time there in the near future. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2013, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-locate-this-conspiracy-theory-ish-thing-i-once-found/674947/3 "2013-11-27T20:33:03Z")
> [@Mithras](#): > > Sounds like this: > > [The New Chronology](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Chronology_(Fomenko-Nosovsky)) > > It seemed familiar to me, but I didn’t remember it off the top of my head. I got to it from [Wikipedia’s list of conspiracy theories.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conspiracy_theories) I had no idea that page existed, **but I’ll be spending a good amount of time there in the near future.** But you already did. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2013, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-locate-this-conspiracy-theory-ish-thing-i-once-found/674947/4 "2013-11-27T20:54:26Z")
I never heard of that but it does kind of remind me of the plot of The Doctor’s Daughter episode of Doctor Who. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2013, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-locate-this-conspiracy-theory-ish-thing-i-once-found/674947/5 "2013-11-27T21:21:58Z")
I heard an interesting variant on this that isn’t totally batnuts crazy: our historical time-line has a few centuries of gaps in it, in ancient times – around 700 B.C. – because of misreading of clues in archaeological sites. Something along the lines of the Trojan War being only 800 B.C. instead of 1,000 B.C. It isn’t really convincing…but at least it isn’t hopelessly foolish. The theory that the [European “Dark Ages” never happened](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_time_hypothesis)…that’s hopelessly foolish. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2013, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-locate-this-conspiracy-theory-ish-thing-i-once-found/674947/6 "2013-11-27T21:26:53Z")
Didn’t we help you find this just last week? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2013, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-locate-this-conspiracy-theory-ish-thing-i-once-found/674947/7 "2013-11-27T22:34:14Z")
Of course not, because the Universe didn’t exist last week. It was all created last Thursday. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2013, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-locate-this-conspiracy-theory-ish-thing-i-once-found/674947/8 "2013-11-28T05:24:28Z")
Okay, so if any particular recyclable event is tragedy the first time around and farce the second time around (this much is known), then what is it the third time and after that? **Chronos** : “Of course not, because the Universe didn’t exist last week. It was all created last Thursday.” Yes, of course, of course. All evidence of anything earlier was simply placed there at the creation, by the Devil, to deceive us into mis-belief. I thought everybody knew that. ---
**Author:** ![Sigene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sigene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigene)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2013, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-locate-this-conspiracy-theory-ish-thing-i-once-found/674947/9 "2013-11-28T06:06:15Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Of course not, because the Universe didn’t exist last week. It was all created last Thursday. It was last Wednesday, you heretic. Do you want to start a cultural war or something? ---
**Author:** ![R.P.McMurphy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7993a0/32.png) [@R.P.McMurphy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R.P.McMurphy)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2013, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-locate-this-conspiracy-theory-ish-thing-i-once-found/674947/10 "2013-11-28T06:41:49Z")
History is just a lie that’s been agreed upon. Time for bed.