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Someone whose work we should be examining more closely.
Long before Fomenko, this scholar was calling out "the classics" as forgeries.

Jean Hardouin (1646–1729) was a 17th century French classical scholar who advanced the bizarre theory that almost every document we have from the classical world is a fake, created in the 13th or 14th century CE primarily by Benedictine monks. He also disputed the genuineness of a large part of Christian history and tradition. He believed that the fakes were a conspiracy to undermine the authority of the Roman Catholic church.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Jean_Hardouin

The level of atmospheric C14 is not constant. Atmospheric C14 varies over decades due to the sunspot cycle, and over millennia due to changes in the earth's magnetic field. On a shorter timescale, humans also affect the amount of atmospheric C14 through combustion of fossil fuels and above-ground testing of the largely diplomatic weapon of the thermonuclear bomb. Therefore dates must be calibrated based on C14 levels in samples of known ages.[1] Heather Graven, an atmospheric scientist, has estimated that by 2050 "the age of fresh organic matter will appear indistinguishable from material created in A.D. 1050" due to fossil-fuel emissions.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Carbon_dating

This leads us into an argument over the accuracy, precision and reliability of "carbon dating" (measuring the "radioactive decay") of manuscripts.

http://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/31/us/er ... ating.html