Editing Historical revisionism (section)

=== Chronological revisionism ===
It is generally accepted that the foundations of modern [[chronology]] were laid by the humanist [[Joseph Justus Scaliger|Joseph Scaliger]]. [[Isaac Newton]] in his work [[The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended|''The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms'']] made one of the first attempts to revise the "Scaligerian chronology".<ref>{{Cite book|last=Hunt|first=Lynn|url=https://books.openedition.org/ceup/819|title=Measuring Time, Making History|year=2008|publisher=Central European University Press |isbn=978-9639776142|access-date=September 21, 2021|archive-date=September 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210921131043/https://books.openedition.org/ceup/819|url-status=live}}</ref> In the twentieth century the "[[Immanuel Velikovsky#Revised chronology|revised chronology]]" of [[Immanuel Velikovsky]] can be singled out in this direction, perhaps it initiated a wave of new broad interest in the revision of chronology.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Meynell|first=Hugo|date=February 1985|title=Ancient History in Chaos—Velikovsky's Chronological Reconstruction|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43247679|journal=New Blackfriars|volume=66|issue=776|pages=56–61|doi=10.1111/j.1741-2005.1985.tb02681.x|jstor=43247679|access-date=September 21, 2021|archive-date=September 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210921131041/https://www.jstor.org/stable/43247679|url-status=live|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

In general, revisionist chronological theories suggest halving the duration of the [[Christian era]], or consider certain historical periods to be erroneously dated, such as [[Heribert Illig]]'s ''[[Phantom time hypothesis]]''<ref>{{Cite book|last=Illig|first=Heribert|title=Das erfundene Mittelalter. Die größte Zeitfälschung der Geschichte|publisher=Econ|year=1996|isbn=3-430-14953-3}}</ref> or the materials of the "[[New chronology (Fomenko)|New Chronology]]", a proposed revision of eras by academician [[Anatoly Fomenko]], albeit one widely rejected by mainstream scholars as [[pseudoscience]].<ref>{{cite periodical |last1=Ginzburg |first1=Vitaly L. |author1-link=Vitaly L. Ginzburg |others=Translated from the Russian by Gary Goldberg |lang=en |title=Pseudoscience and the Need to Combat It |magazine=[[Nauka i Zhizn]]' |date=2000 |issue=11 |url=https://humanism.al.ru/en/articles.phtml?num=000051 |access-date=December 12, 2021 |publisher=Russian Humanist Society: humanism.al.ru |id=[https://www.nkj.ru/archive/articles/5372/ Also, in the original Russian] |archive-date=October 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211024191933/http://humanism.al.ru/en/articles.phtml?num=000051 |url-status=live }}</ref>