Phantom Time hypothesis

The Phantom Time Hypothesis, proposed by Heribert Illig, is the theory that the recorded history of the Early Middle Ages (AD 614 – 911), particularly the Carolingian period, is a falsehood that was spread by Otto III and Gerbert d'Aurillac, and that the era described did not take place. Illig believed that the falsification was achieved through the alteration, misrepresentation, and forgery of documentary and physical evidence.