Dark Ages (disambiguation)

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The Dark Ages most commonly refers to the Western European Early Middle Ages, the period encompassing (roughly) 476 to 1000.

Dark Ages may refer to:

In history and sociology:

• Greek Dark Ages (ca. 1100 BC–750 BC), a period in the history of Ancient Greece and Anatolia from which no records, and only scant archaeological evidence, survive.
• Dark ages of Cambodia (ca. 1450-1863)
• Societal collapse

In astrophysics and cosmology:

• Dark Ages, in Big Bang cosmology, a nickname for the time between Recombination (of electrons with hydrogen and helium nuclei) and Reionization

In music:

• Dark Ages (album), an album by Soulfly
• The Dark Ages, an EP by Andrea Parker
• "Dark Ages", a song by Jethro Tull on their 1979 album Stormwatch
• "Dark Ages", a song by the Yngwie J. Malmsteen on his 1986 album Trilogy
• Dark Age (band), a German melodic death metal band

In entertainment:

• Dark Age of Comic Books (1986-late 1990s), a period in the American comics industry
• Dark Ages (1991 computer game), a platform game by Apogee Software
• Dark Ages (computer game), an MMORPG by KRU Interactive
• Dark Ages (server emulator), a short-lived server emulator for the MMORPG Dark Age of Camelot
• Dark Ages (TV series), a 1999 ITV comedy series set in England in 999AD parodying 1999's millennial fears such as the Millennium Bug [1]
• "The Dark Age", an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer