An amazing discovery: the sculptors and architects of Ancient Greece were contemporaries of Titian and Michelangelo! A stylistic analysis of the material witnesses of the past that have come down to us—works of art—shows so many parallels in the styles of different eras that they simply cannot be explained otherwise than by a chronological error. And this explanation is impeccable, because unlike chronology, an auxiliary historical discipline, art is by no means an auxiliary type of human activity. The book, written in an understandable and entertaining form, uses a huge number of illustrations (about 500), examines examples of human creativity from primitive times to our days. The reader will see for himself how the history of mankind was created and will understand from numerous examples that it is not only multivariate, but even more complex than is commonly thought. For a wide range of educated readers.