Dark Ages

Dark Ages or Dark Age may refer to:

History and sociology

• Dark Ages (historiography), the use of the term Dark Ages by historians and lay people
• Irish Dark Age, a period of apparent economic and cultural stagnation in late pre-historic Ireland, lasting from c. 100 BC to c. 300 AD.
• Bronze Age collapse (c. 1200 BC)
  • Greek Dark Ages (c. 1100 BC – 750 BC), a period in the history of Ancient Greece and Anatolia after the Bronze Age collapse
• Parthian Dark Age
• Digital dark age, a future time when it might not be possible to read historical digital documents
• Societal collapse

Arts and entertainment

Music

• Dark Ages (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 Yngwie Malmsteen on his 1986 album Trilogy
• "Dark Ages" (The Hippos song), a 1988 song by The Hippos
• "Dark Ages", a song by NoMeansNo on their 1988 album Small Parts Isolated and Destroyed
• Dark Age (band), a German death metal band
• Dark Ages (band), a Ukrainian dark ambient band
• "New Dark Ages", a song by punk rock band Bad Religion on the album New Maps of Hell
• "Dark Ages", a song by heavy metal band Scar the Martyr on the album Scar the Martyr (album)
• "The Dark Ages", an EP by American indie rock band Bedhead
• Little Dark Age, an album by MGMT

Other uses in entertainment

• Dark Age of Comic Books (1986-late 1990s), a period in the American comics industry
• Dark Age (1987 film), an Australian horror adventure film directed by Arch Nicholson
• Dark Ages (1991 video game), a platform game by Apogee Software
• Dark Age (collectible card game), a collectible card game from 1996
• Dark Ages (1999 video game), an MMORPG by KRU Interactive
• Dark Ages (TV series), a 1999 ITV comedy series set in England
• "The Dark Age", an episode of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• "The Dark Age", an episode of the anime series Bungo Stray Dogs
• The Dark Ages: An Age of Light, a BBC four-part documentary television series
• Dark Ages, an expansion for the deck-building card game Dominion
• Dark Ages, a world in the video game Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time
• Dark Age (Brown novel), a 2019 novel by Pierce Brown

Other uses

• 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

• Golden Age (disambiguation)
• Middle Ages
• Societal collapse, a situation in which a society collapses