Mystery Of The Controversial Phantom Time Hypothesis

Ellen Lloyd – MessageToEagle.com – One of the most intriguing and highly controversial theories dealing with ancient history is, without doubt, the “Phantom Time Hypothesis”.

According to this unconventional and thought-provoking theory, the Early Middle Ages (614-911 A.D) never existed because the Western calendar was misdated.

The Phantom Time Hypothesis was developed by German scientist Heribert Illig. Another German researcher Hans-Ulrich Niemitz expanded on this theory after he accidentally learned about the problem of faked documents in the Middle Ages.

In his science paper “Did the Early Middle Ages Really Exist?” Dr. Hans-Ulrich Niemitz points out that we can find medieval falsifications in every kind of documents. There are literally thousands of recognized forgeries from the Middle Ages. People forged wills, history texts, land deed and more. The Church falsified documents and relics on a regular basis too.

It should be added that since people didn’t own any clocks, they couldn’t track days like we do today.

To find out what day it was, they simply asked a priest.

These are facts that speak in favor of the Phantom Time Hypothesis.

“The easiest way to understand doubts about the accepted chronology and ‘well-known’ history is to seriously systematize the problems of medieval research.
This will lead us to detect a pattern that proves my thesis and gives reason to assume that a phantom period of approximately 300 years has been inserted between 600 AD to 900 AD, either by accident, by misinterpretation of documents or by deliberate falsification.

This period and all events that are supposed to have happened therein never existed. Buildings and artifacts ascribed to this period really belong to other periods, “Dr. Hans-Ulrich Niemitz says.
The reason why the Western calendar was misdated was that Holy Roman Emperor, Otto III, in collusion with Pope Sylvester II wanted to celebrate the end of the first millennium 297 years earlier.

By examining several curious historical gaps the scientists were able to elaborate further on the Phantom Time Hypothesis.

“We looked for ‘gaps’ in special reports and publications, also for periods of stagnation or strange events repeated in similar manner after approximately 300 years. I only refer to some of a great number of puzzles: a gap in the history of building in Constantinople (558 AD – 908 AD); a gap in the doctrine of faith, especially the gap in the evolution of theory and meaning of purgatory (600 AD until ca. 1100), a 300-year-long reluctant introduction of farming techniques (three-acre-system, horse with cummet) and of war techniques (stirrup), a gap in the mosaic art (565 AD – 1018 AD), a repeated beginning of the German orthography etc. etc. The puzzles of historiography led the way, pointing out again and again the ‘gap’ which we soon termed ‘phantom time’.”

One of the most startling proposals is that Charlemagne, also known as Charles the Great and widely recognized as the Father of Europe was a fictional character who lived in imaginary time.

According to Dr. Hans-Ulrich Niemitz there are two reasons why the ‘fakers’ needed a phantom time of 297 years.

Hypothesis 1 states that “Otto III didn’t live accidentally around the year 1000 AD; he himself had defined this date! He wanted to reign in this year because this suited his understanding of Christian millennialism. He defined this date with the help of his famous and well-versed friend Gerbert de Aurillac, later Pope Sylvester II.

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In reality, they lived approximately seven hundred years after the birth of Jesus Christ, but never until then had the years been reckoned ‘after Christ’. Perhaps unaware of their error and without intending to falsify they defined one special year as ‘1000 AD’ (Illig 1991). Consequently, chroniclers had to invent 300 years of history. To fill up empty periods – what a great occasion for dynasties and kings!”

Hypothesis 2 states that” Constantine VII of Byzantium (905 – 959 AD) organized a complete rewriting of the whole Byzantine history.”

So, is the Phantom Time Hypothesis really true? We do not know that.

It is impossible to tell at this time because this theory requires much more research. What I can tell you is that if the Phantom Time Hypothesis is correct then our calendar year was increased by 297 years without the corresponding passage of time. This means that our current year is not 2014 but 1717.
Written by Ellen Lloyd – MessageToEagle.com

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