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Dark Ages or Dark Age may refer to:

History and sociology [ edit ]

• Dark Ages (historiography) , the use of the term Dark Ages by historians and lay people
  • Early Middle Ages (5th?10th centuries), the centuries after the fall of the Western Roman Empire
    • Saeculum obscurum ("dark age/century"), a period in the history of the papacy during the first two-thirds of the 10th century
  • Byzantine Dark Ages (7th?8th centuries), period of large-scale transformation but obscure due to lack of sources in Byzantine history
  • List of common misconceptions about the Middle Ages § History of the "Dark Ages" misconception
• Irish Dark Age , a period of apparent economic and cultural stagnation in late pre-historic Ireland, lasting from c. 100 BC to c. AD 300
• Parthian Dark Age , a period of three decades in the history of Parthian Empire
• Societal collapse , a situation in which a society collapses
  • Late Bronze Age collapse (c. 1200 BC?1150 BC)
    • Greek Dark Ages (c. 1100 BC?750 BC), a period in the history of ancient Greece and Anatolia after the Late Bronze Age collapse
• Dark ages of Khmer/Cambodia
  • Post-Angkor period (1431?1863)
  • Cambodian genocide (1975?1979), the systematic persecution and killing of Cambodian people by the Khmer Rouge
• Digital dark age , a future time when it might not be possible to read historical digital documents

Arts and entertainment [ edit ]

Film and television [ edit ]

• Dark Age (film) , a 1987 Australian film directed by Arch Nicholson
• Dark Ages (TV series) , a 1999 British sitcom
• The Dark Ages: An Age of Light , a 2012 British documentary television series
• Miracle Workers: Dark Ages , the 2020 season of Miracle Workers
• "The Dark Age" ( Buffy the Vampire Slayer ) , a 1997 television episode
• "The Dark Age" ( Bungo Stray Dogs ) , a 2016 television episode
• "The Dark Age" ( Lighthouse ) , a 2023 talk show episode
• "The Dark Ages" ( Roseanne ) , a 1992 television episode

Games [ edit ]

• Dark Ages (1991 video game) , a platform game by Apogee Software
• Dark Ages (1999 video game) , an MMORPG by KRU Interactive
• Dark Age (collectible card game) , a 1996 collectible card game
• Dark Ages , a 2012 expansion for the deck-building card game Dominion
• Doom: The Dark Ages , an upcoming video game

Literature [ edit ]

• Dark Age (novel) , a 2019 novel by Pierce Brown
• The Dark Age (series) , a 2002?2005 novel trilogy by Mark Chadbourn
• Dark Age of Comic Books (1986?late 1990s), a period in the American comics industry
• The Dark Age , a four-book maxiseries of the comics series Astro City

Music [ edit ]

• Dark Age (band) , a German metal band 1995?2013

Albums [ edit ]

• Dark Ages (album) , by Soulfly, or the title song, 2005
• The Dark Ages , an EP by Andrea Parker , 2001
• The Dark Ages , an EP Bedhead , 1996
• Little Dark Age by MGMT

Songs [ edit ]

• "Dark Age" (song) , by the Hippos, 1988
• "Dark Ages", by Jethro Tull from Stormwatch , 1979
• "Dark Ages", by NoMeansNo from Small Parts Isolated and Destroyed , 1988
• "Dark Ages", by Scar the Martyr from Scar the Martyr , 2013
• "Dark Ages", by Yngwie Malmsteen from Trilogy , 1986

Other uses [ edit ]

• Dark Ages (cosmology) , in Big Bang cosmology, a period ending roughly 150 million to 800 million years after the Big Bang, after which stars began to form
• "Dark Era" , a hypothetical age of the universe in the far future

See also [ edit ]

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• Golden Age (disambiguation)
• Middle Ages (disambiguation)

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