You might be thinking of Fomenko's New Chronology, presented in a series of books that were popular in Russia in the 1990s. It sounds very far-fetched: https:

You might be thinking of Fomenko's New Chronology, presented in a series of books that were popular in Russia in the 1990s. It sounds very far-fetched: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Chronology_(Fomenko) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Chronology_(Fomenko)