Uwe Topper (1940-) was born in Wroclaw, Poland (formerly Breslau, Germany) and currently living in Berlin where he earns a living as an artist.  However, he is better known as a researcher and author in the fields of history, ethnography and anthropology. Towards the end of the last century he turned his attention to chronology and produced his own version of New Chronology which incorporates some of the views of Anatoly Fomenko and Heribert Illig.

Topper seems to thrive on controversy, because not content to deconstruct our chronology, he has denounced, Beowulf, the cave paintings of Chauvet, and the Lady of Elche as all fakes^(a).

Topper has also written about Atlantis, placing its capital on the site of modern Cadiz and has identified possible references to Atlantis in the Qur’an. He has also attempted to revive interest in Hanns Hörbiger’s ‘world-ice theory’.

My instincts tell me that Topper’s views should be treated with great caution.

Topper’s son, Ilya, is following in his father’s footsteps with articles on New Chronology  as well as papers with provocative titles such as; The Christian Koran and The Sumerians did not exist^(c).

^(a) http://www.ilya.it/chrono/pages/toppe

^(c) http://www.ilya.it/chrono/pages/ilyaen.htm