Where the official story breaks down.
History reviewed on sourced timelines — every event dated, every date carrying numbered references, and the missing sources listed beside the surviving ones.
The covered periods of recorded history. Green bands are period pages — click to open. Segments are not to uniform scale.
The estimated period, handled honestly: the patriarchal Line as one lane with every position dashed as an estimate, the anchored Empires — Ur’s fall, Hammurabi, the Hyksos — as the fixed ruler beneath it, and the absence of contemporary attestation entered in the master register as a source in its own right.
One family across the whole spine: the tradition lane — Troy, Aeneas, Iulus, Alba, Romulus — dashed end to end, against the record lane — the consular lists, the stone at Bovillae, the lex Julia, the coin, the Ides, and the adoption that put a non-Julian bloodline on the Julian name.
The first period page: Caesar, Cleopatra and Caesarion as a two-lane master timeline — every event dated, every date carrying numbered references in source . work . passage form, and the missing sources listed with the same seriousness as the surviving ones.
The family history of the gens Julia from the record: the Troy chain and who recorded it, the surviving altar at Bovillae, Alba destroyed and the Julii transplanted to Rome, kings twice over, the Republic’s consuls and the lex Julia — and the adoption break: Augustus was a Julian through two women, grafted by will onto a claim that runs father to son.
Part 1 of the Caesar–Cleopatra period: the life to 15 March 44 BC, from the record — the Julii, Sulla defied, the pirates, the kings-and-gods eulogy, the ladder to an army, Gaul, the civil war, Cleopatra in Rome, the will and the drafted marriage bill, the Ides, and the missing documents. Linked event-by-event to the period timeline.