Eudoxus’ Star Catalogue – how old is it really? Berlin · 2010 Uwe Topper topper Introduction There is an ever so often reappearing puzzle of time shift when ancient astronomical dates are confronted to modern retrocalculations. Ancient dates are far to low, and modern calcualtions for the described phenomena yield dates in the distant past

The ERA, a medieval chronological reckoning Uwe Topper Berlin · 2006 The Julian or province-era, generally called ERA, was widely documented throughout Europe during the Middle Ages from the 5th to the 15th centuries at a time long before our modern AD-reckoning came into usage. The word ERA probably is Vandal in origin and means

Fakes in Anatolia James Stuart Mellaart and the Prehistory of Anatolia Uwe Topper Berlin ·2002 James Mellaart was still a young man when he came to Turkey and there married a Turkish lady. His main occupation was archaeology. Around the year 1955 a vivid market for pretty prehistoric ceramic figurines flowered in the country, and

How can 65 Million Years completely vanish? Berlin · 2002 Uwe Topper topper How can 65 Million years just completely vanish? Review of a revolutionary book by Christian Bloess : Ceno-Crash (Berlin 2000) That question raised above is answered by a carefully scientifically written book by Christian Blöss, Ceno-Crash (Berlin 2000). He says what several

Easter dates in an inscription at Périgueux Berlin · 2011 Uwe Topper topper Easter dates in an inscription in the old cathedral of Périgueux – who designed them and when ? In summer 2010 I visited the town of Périgueux in Western France in search of a mysterious inscription in a church showing about 90

Detering: False Witnesses Dr. Hermann Detering: False Witnesses: the non-Christian testimonies for a historical Jesus on trial (Aschaffenburg, 2011) Detering Review by Uwe Topper Dr. Hermann Detering, born 1953 in Oldenburg, was a critical Protestant theologian and was a pastor in Berlin for 27 years. His field of work is early Christianity, especially the Pauline