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 ...