I’ll offer the Phantom Time Hypothesis: “...According to this scenario, the entire Carolingian period, including the figure of Charlemagne, is a fabrication, wi

I’ll offer the Phantom Time Hypothesis: “...According to this scenario, the entire Carolingian period, including the figure of Charlemagne, is a fabrication, with a "phantom time" of 297 years (AD 614–911) added to the Early Middle Ages.” I’ve heard an additional bit. We call those roughly three centuries The Dark Ages. Very little was recorded as happening throughout them, when compared to the time period that came before and the time period that came after. They are “dark” - as in unknown. According to this conspiracy theory, the reason that so little happened is because the time period that we call The Dark Ages never actually existed.