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There’s a competing theory that a buncha time “disappeared” by a simple dating convention.

Before years were written as xxxx AD the custom was rather than an Anno Domini suffix, Christian years were prefixed with the first letter of Jesus’ name.

See the problem?

The letter J did not yet exist. Jesus was originally spelled with an I.

The cornerstone of a building built in, say, 372 would have I372 carved in it. A modern observer would think it read 1372 and was therefore a thousand years younger, that pretty much nothing of note was built before 1000 AD!

[alexander_busek]

Before years were written as xxxx AD the custom was [...]

The correct sequence is: "A.D. ####."

Regards,

[SunkenCiv]

Nice! I’d never heard that one!