Time Warp (thru xymphora)
"You might think it's the year 2000, but a group of prominent Russian mathematicians is arguing that history is all wrong, and it's actually 936AD."

Looks like another Sokal-like polemic in the making. I'm nonplussed that the historians quoted in this article use analogy several times to refute the mathematicians' theory. I'd rather use analogy for suggestion rather than demonstration: just because two things look similar doesn't prove they are the same.