Complex sentence: The claim that Jesus had, before his preaching in Judea, travelled to India was first put forward by a Russian adventurer Nicolas Notovitch in 1894, but once his story had been re-examined by historians, Notovitch confessed to having fabricated the evidence.
Split into simpler sentences: The claim that Jesus had, before his preaching in Judea, travelled to India was first put forward by a Russian adventurer Nicolas Notovitch in 1894. But once his story had been re-examined by historians, Notovitch confessed to having fabricated the evidence.