The Chronicle of Huru (Romanian: Cronica lui Huru) was a forged narrative, first published in 1856–1857; it claimed to be an official chronicle of the medieval Moldavian court and to shed light on Romanian presence in Moldavia from Roman Dacia and up to the 13th century, thus offering an explanation of problematic issues relating to the origin of the Romanians and Romanian history in the Dark Ages. Publicized and endorsed by the Romantic nationalist intellectuals Gheorghe Asachi (who edited the published version)[1][2] and Ion Heliade Rădulescu, it was argued to have been the work of Paharnic Constantin Sion (or another member of his family)[2] or that of Gheorghe Săulescu, Asachi's friend and lifelong collaborator.[1]