What Really Happened In The Past?
It is a broad, but fascinating topic for our round table this time. In this hectic time of change, with major new conspiracies regularly being unearthed, we should be reminded of, and appreciate, those who tried to preserve an accurate telling of past events in the face of cover-ups, white-washes, propaganda and blatant ignorance.
Many things in history did not happen as we are told in state education and main stream sources. What example do you have? Which topic do you find most intriguing?
Thanks to everyone who made a suggestion and voted and to u/Gottmituns for the winning suggestion.
Have you ever done genealogical research? Not ancestry dot com bull, but actual paper trail? Because your comment makes me wonder if you think that tons of random people for random reasons just made up dozens of names to write in their family bibles and such? This doesn't make sense when put against plain evidence... if we were talking about something going down in the 600-800's then maybe, but a few hundred years ago has written ephemera made by normal people.
I'm not who you replied to but I just googled the phantom time theory. The original claim is that it only spans 297 years(AD 614-911). I believe this is earlier than all of the genealogical records you're talking about.
I want to mention that I know nothing about this theory or these claims. I just learned about them in this thread so I am by no means knowledgeable on it.
There are absolutely genealogical records of that time period, particularly from the Byzantine Empire
There obviously are records of most European nobility, and of course China has records... but the Eastern Roman/Byzantine Empire would be the source for voluminous ones of more than just royal lineages. Romans loved recording minutia and it would be rather inconceivable to fabricate that quantity of recorded history.
The concept of "phantom time" comes from not understanding the "dark ages" in Western Europe. There was still the rest of the world going on and the monastic culture was still traveling to and from and communicating with Greece and Byzantium. Maybe we are off a few months to a year or two, not more.