The author of this unusual book is film director and screenwriter Yuri Elkhov, known for the films "Princess Slutskaya," "Son for Father," "The Apostate." The book was written on the basis of the literary script of the failed documentary-historical film "Crosses and Crescents (in the footsteps of the lost empire)," which is based on the research work of two prominent Russian scientists: Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko and Gleb Vladimirovich Nosovsky, who stirred up the world scientific community with their revolutionary discoveries in the field of reconstruction of the chronology of universal history.