Thinking out loud.

[Henry IX]

Historians generally don't do too well with such theories, but they exist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_time_hypothesis

Wow, that theory is not just wrong, its not even wrong.

 

[Antediluvian Monster]

History is written by the victors.
/thread

Good point. Large parts of human history have been written by the defeated starting from classical Greece (the couldn't-even-beat-Sparta Thucydides and ran-back-with-tail-between-his-legs-from-Persian-misadventure Xenophon). We should question the veracity of these spurious accounts more since they don't conform to the adage that history is written by victors.

For example, large amount of Roman history was written by the defeated Greeks, but did it really happen? Was there ever a Scipio Africanus as described by Polybius? Did Kingdom of Jerusalem even exist? Who here has read any Ayyubid accounts of it?

 

[Eusebio]

Another obvious example: the popular history of the Eastern Front in WW2 was literally written by defeated German generals and no-one read the Soviet victors because of Cold War politics.

 

[Prussian Havoc]

History is written by the victors.
/thread

The Victors are often too busy to write History. They have people for that. People who may or may not have agendas of their own. : )

 

[demanvanwezel]

History is written by the victors or those who can write.
/thread

FTFY