I am officially dumber for having watched this video. If written language wasn't invented until about 1000 years ago, then how did the renaissance scholars destroy ancient documents? It goes back and forth from "History as we know it is crap" to "History is a giant cover-up." There are just too many internal contradictions there for me to even try to point out. I guess this is just more evidence that once some people get an idea in their head, they decide without any evidence that it must be true - and no one persuade them otherwise.

What's this? Some kind of Adam & Joe Sift Renaissance?

Finally, two A&J's are going to have escaped the queue! (Check mine and NickyP's discarded Sifts for more of these guys).

Is that the statue of David illustrating "Pornography?"
Damned Italian Renaissance.

As a general rule I try not to encourage people to listen to crackpots, but I'm not especially worried about people taking this too seriously. Heck, it works as a good IQ test I suppose.

Then again, I usually don't crib titles out of the comments left on the youtube page, but the quote I used for the title was too priceless to pass up - I just cleaned up the grammar slightly.

A Russian mathematician named Fomenko (per video "leading mathematician of our time", okay Good Will Hunting...) wrote the book this video advertises - his thesis per Amazon is "that all of ancient history was either invented during the Renaissance or at least only based on recent medieval events".

Enjoy for the LOL value.