Many people think that the history we study at school and our real past are roughly the same thing. But that’s not true. Scientists who believe they study ancient and medieval history are, in fact, studying not reality, but an artificial world—a mirage created by their predecessors in the 17th–18th centuries. After all, whether they know it or not, they use exclusively edited texts from the 17th–18th centuries, mistakenly taking them for “genuine ancient primary sources.” They’re completely immersed in this artificial world, spending their entire professional lives inside it, and no longer able to understand that all of it is a fairy tale. This historical fairy tale is complex, branched, and at first glance it looks like something reliable and consistent. But only at first glance. An unbiased investigation based on independent natural-science dating methods quickly reveals all the signs of forgery. This edition is meant to show the reader what our past looks like through the lens of the New Chronology.