Did Jesus live only 1,000 years ago?

That is the claim of Florin Diacu, and his counterpart, Anatoli Fomenko.
They have matched descriptions of human events in ancient documents with astronomical data, such as eclipses. The results show that the standard dates we accept for ancient events, based on Greek, Roman, biblical, and other histories, may be off, and that, if you add in bad translations of dates, medieval "fixes", and plain old errors, then our current history, the number of years since the birth of Christ, may only amount to one millennium.

Look for The Lost Millennium, by Florin Diacu, in bookstores.