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.
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.