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Heribert Illig

The German author who proposed the Phantom Time Hypothesis in 1991 and continued publishing on the subject through his own journal, Zeitensprunge, for decades afterward.

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    Heribert Illig is located in Germany.

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What Is the Phantom Time Hypothesis?

What the Phantom Time Hypothesis claims: that roughly 297 years of the early Middle Ages were fabricated, and why historians reject it.