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 |  Subject: Are Calendars Off Because A Pope And An Emperor Teamed Up To Erase 300 Years?  Tue Nov 04, 2014 7:05 am | |
| Are Calendars Off Because A Pope And An Emperor Teamed Up To Erase 300 Years? 
The point is, both of these men knew how to self-mythologize, which is why Heribert Illig, a German systems analyst, believes that the two changed the date in order to make their ascent to power even more symbolic. It's possible that the two came to power at the middle, or end, of the seventh century AD, and simply rewrote the dates to make it look like they were on the brink of a new millennium. Illig has a few interesting pieces of evidence to support him. There are allegations of widespread document fraud in several manuscripts written at the time, which seem to date from the seventh century. Byzantine documents from this era were transcribed from one kind of script to a new, more efficient script, and the originals were thrown away. Perhaps they were thrown away to conceal gaps and inconsistencies in the historical record. |
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