In Encrypted Reality: Interpreting History’s Patterns, I present a radical reinterpretation of the past, arguing that much of what we think of as “ancient history” is actually a Renaissance-era fabrication. I believe this grand rewrite was orchestrated by a covert network I call the Watch, with Leon Battista Alberti at its center—not only as a polymath, but as a master cryptographer and spymaster. Using the printing press, forged artifacts, and falsified manuscripts, this network constructed a false sense of deep antiquity. Drawing inspiration from aspects of Fomenko’s New Chronology and Julian Jaynes’s Bicameral Mind theory, I compress the entirety of recorded history into the 11th–15th centuries, arguing that earlier civilizations, wars, and plagues were duplicated or invented to serve political agendas.
I see Alberti’s celebrated work in perspective, architecture, mathematics, and cryptography as both genuine and deeply strategic—intellectual brilliance serving as a cover for vast intelligence operations. The Watch, in my view, controlled libraries, universities, and religious bodies to enforce a manipulated historical record. I believe the fall of Constantinople and the invention of the printing press created the perfect conditions for mass-producing counterfeit “classics,” planting fake artifacts, and backdating advanced technologies, all to legitimize rulers, reinforce dynasties, and reshape humanity’s collective memory.
My research takes Alberti far beyond Europe, linking him to figures such as the Inca ruler Pachacuti and the Aztec leader Nezahualcoyotl. I see these as not separate people but multiple identities of a single operative—code-named “G”—working across continents to engineer political, cultural, and technological transformations. Overlapping lifespans, similar feats in architecture and water management, and parallel artistic and philosophical contributions strengthen this case. I connect G to mysterious artifacts like the Voynich Manuscript and the Inca quipu, interpreting them as encrypted communication tools for the Watch.
I also see strong connections between Mesoamerican and Andean civilizations and the cultures of the Old World, from shared symbols and engineering to mirrored governance systems. I believe this is no coincidence, but the result of intentional cross-continental diffusion directed by the Watch. Many indigenous systems, from Aztec poetic metaphors to Inca knotted cords, seem to have served cryptographic purposes. In my view, the Watch embedded shared mythic templates and apocalyptic narratives into multiple civilizations, conditioning societies to accept periodic “historical resets” and ideological control.
Alberti’s integration into European power circles—especially the Medici—allowed him to spread Humanist ideals, promote vernacular languages, and undermine centralized religious authority, all while using print, forgery, and encryption to continue shaping the narrative. Figures like Poggio Bracciolini, celebrated for “recovering” ancient texts, I instead regard as master forgers. The Medici’s humanist program, influenced by Alberti, mobilized artists and scholars to produce both authentic works and falsified histories, reframing Europe’s cultural identity.
I see many celebrated technological and mathematical advances—firearms, the compass, double-entry bookkeeping, even the Fibonacci sequence—not as relics of antiquity but as Renaissance or post-Renaissance creations deliberately backdated. The Watch, I argue, reintroduced these innovations at carefully chosen moments to control economies, warfare, and exploration. Even the official narratives of Columbus and Vespucci appear, to me, as orchestrated stories, with Alberti-linked cartography quietly guiding transatlantic voyages long before they were “discovered.”
For me, history is not a straightforward timeline—it’s a cryptogram, an encrypted narrative hiding deeper truths. I see historical dates not as absolute facts but as relative markers, arranged to support a grand design. By combining the study of intelligence operations, symbolic systems, and humanity’s shift from a bicameral to an introspective mind, I argue that our historical record and even our modern consciousness are far more recent—and far more deliberately engineered—than most people realize.
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This edition is a living, evolving work that grows as new insights come to light. The initial version of this timeline appears in my book, The Renaissance Man: Portrait of a Spymaster. That original edition—now a time capsule of thought before the rise of large language models like ChatGPT—is still available on Amazon.
