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Historical revisionism

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March 10 2025	Ancient Egyptian race controversy Genetic research definitively proves that the previously speculated skeleton of Arsinoe IV is actually that of a teenage male, dispelling earlier racial ancestry claims.
2023	Ancient Egyptian race controversy Ehret criticized two centuries of Western scholarship that portrayed Egypt as an 'offshoot of earlier Middle Eastern developments', challenging established scholarly narratives.
2023	Ancient Egyptian race controversy American comedian Kevin Hart's planned tour of Egypt was cancelled after controversy on Egyptian social media regarding his Afrocentric claims about Egyptian history.
2023	Ancient Egyptian race controversy Netflix releases the documentary series Queen Cleopatra, depicting Cleopatra as black, which sparks a lawsuit in Egypt and criticism for historical misrepresentation.
2023	Ancient Egyptian race controversy William Stiebling and Susan Helft argued that ancient Egyptian physical appearances varied along a continuum, with genetic and cultural ties to multiple African and Mediterranean regions.
2023	Historical revisionism Russian history school books underwent significant changes, reflecting new state-approved historical narratives about Soviet history.
2022	Nineteen Eighty-Four English band Bastille references the novel in their song 'Back to the Future' from the album Give Me the Future.
2022	Ancient Egyptian race controversy S.O.Y. Keita examined archaeological, linguistic, and biological evidence, concluding that the Ancient Egyptians emerged from the Saharo-Nilotic region of Northeast Africa.
2022	Ancient Egyptian race controversy Andrea Manzo published work highlighting the relevance of African elements in the rise of Egyptian culture, countering traditional views that linked Egypt more closely to the Near East.
2022	Ancient Egyptian race controversy An unpublished follow-up study reconstructed 18 high-quality mitochondrial genomes from six excavation sites along the Nile Valley, spanning 4,000 years of Egyptian history.
2022	Ancient Egyptian race controversy Danielle Candelora critically analyzed the misuse of DNA studies for racist political agendas, specifically critiquing media interpretations of the 2017 Schuenemann genome study.
2022	Ancient Egyptian race controversy S.O.Y. Keita analyzed genetic data from the Hawass et al. studies, concluding that the royal mummies showed population affinity with sub-Saharan Africans, while cautioning against oversimplified interpretations of genetic heritage.
2022	Genocide denial The United Nations Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect issued a policy paper linking genocide denial to hate speech, providing recommendations for states and UN officials on addressing genocide denial.
2022	Historical revisionism Following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia intensifies historical revisionism, making significant changes to school history books that remove mentions of repressions and reframe historical narratives.
2021	Nineteen Eighty-Four Polygon published 'Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Jura Edition' with an introduction by Alex Massie.
2021	Historical revisionism Russian authorities forcibly shut down the Memorial organization, which had been researching Soviet-era archives and documenting mass burial grounds.
2021	Historical revisionism Memorial organization was forcibly shut down in Russia, restricting historical research about Stalin's regime.
January 1 2021	Nineteen Eighty-Four Nineteen Eighty-Four entered the public domain in most of the world, 70 years after Orwell's death.
2020	Nineteen Eighty-Four The Used releases a song titled '1984' on their album Heartwork.
2020	Ancient Egyptian race controversy A DNA study by Gad, Hawass et al. analyzed mitochondrial and Y-chromosomal haplogroups of Tutankhamun's family, finding a Y-chromosome haplogroup R1b and mitochondrial haplogroup K.
November 5 2019	Nineteen Eighty-Four The BBC named Nineteen Eighty-Four on its list of the 100 most influential novels, recognizing the book's significant cultural impact.
2018	Ancient Egyptian race controversy Stuart Tyson Smith critiqued scholarly practices of divorcing Egypt from its African context, challenging prevailing Egyptological perspectives that minimized Egypt's African identity.
2017	Nineteen Eighty-Four The book topped Amazon.com sales charts again after Kellyanne Conway's controversial use of the phrase 'alternative facts'.
2017	Ancient Egyptian race controversy Schuenemann genome study published, which was later criticized by Danielle Candelora for methodological limitations and sensationalized media interpretation about Egyptian racial origins.
April 21 2016	Genocide denial A full-page advertisement appeared in The Wall Street Journal and Chicago Tribune promoting Fact Check Armenia, a genocide denial website sponsored by the Turkish lobby in the US.
December 2015	Historical revisionism Three weeks after Mauricio Macri's inauguration, the Manuel Dorrego National Institute was closed, ending its historical revisionism efforts.
2014	Ancient Egyptian race controversy Margaret Bunson wrote that Ahmose-Nefertari's unusual blue-black tone depictions reflected her status and cult.
2014	Ancient Egyptian race controversy Kathryn Bard characterized Egyptians as indigenous Nile Valley farmers, rejecting simplistic racial categorizations.
2014	Historical revisionism Russian law enforcement began prosecuting public statements that do not comply with the current version of Russian history, marking a new phase of historical revisionism.
June 2013	Nineteen Eighty-Four NSA mass surveillance leaks were publicized, revealing secret monitoring of global internet traffic. This led to a significant increase in sales of Nineteen Eighty-Four, with book sales rising up to seven times within the first week.
February 2013	Genocide denial Shahbag protests erupt in Bangladesh, challenging war criminals complicit in the 1971 genocide and bringing international attention to the ongoing denial of the events.
2012	Ancient Egyptian race controversy Ebony magazine publishes the article 'Was Cleopatra Black?', contributing to the ongoing race debate about Cleopatra.
November 2012	Nineteen Eighty-Four During a US Supreme Court case, Justice Stephen Breyer referenced Nineteen Eighty-Four when questioning government GPS tracking, drawing parallels to the novel's themes of surveillance.
2011	Ancient Egyptian race controversy Barbara Mertz published 'Red Land, Black Land: Daily Life in Ancient Egypt', discussing the complexities of skin color representation in Egyptian art and arguing that the concept of race would have been alien to ancient Egyptians.
2011	Ancient Egyptian race controversy The genomics company iGENEA launched a Tutankhamun DNA project claiming he belonged to the R1b1a2 haplogroup, which was subsequently criticized by DNA researchers Carsten Pusch and Albert Zink as unscientific.
2011	Historical revisionism The Manuel Dorrego National Institute of Argentine and Iberoamerican Historical Revisionism was established by the Secretary of Culture, aiming to provide alternative historical perspectives.
2010	Ancient Egyptian race controversy Hawass et al. undertook the King Tutankhamun Family Project, conducting detailed anthropological, radiological, and genetic studies on 11 royal mummies from the New Kingdom.
2010	Historical revisionism Russia begins rewriting historical narratives after its first attack on Ukraine, initiating significant changes in historical interpretations.

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