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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_time_hypothesis
If you're into #conspiracy_theories, you may like this.
Supposedly, the Pope, the Byzantine Emperor, the Holy Roman Emperor fabricated an almost 300 year period of time in order to make a certain year become AD 1000 and support the HRE's claim to empire. Meaning that Charlemagne and other Carolingian rulers never existed.
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When I read about this sort of #conspiracy_theory, I wonder what it is that triggered the #conspiracy_theorist to create the theory. What makes one believe there is a 297 year interpolation in history? Why does one believe these individuals who've been dead for 900 years together created 297 imaginary years?
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* The scarcity of archeological evidence that can be reliably dated to the period AD 614-911 ...
That is oddly specific. Are there other periods of 300 years or shorter where the same thing is true?