The Phantom Time Hypothesis, a theory by historian Heribert Illig, posits that nearly 300 years of the Middle Ages (614-911 AD) were fabricated. This viral idea suggests a conspiracy by powerful ...
People take the Gregorian calendar for granted, thinking it is fixed, infallible, and at one with the Sun. Then, almost every four years, February 29 arrives to remind people the calendar is actually ...
Are we living out the results of a temporal conspiracy in which hundreds of years were smuggled into the Roman calendar to convince us that the Middle Ages happened? Are we really living in the 1700s?