Dark Ages (disambiguation)

The term Dark Ages may refer to:

In history and sociology:
* the Western European Early Middle Ages (ca. 500 to 1000 AD).
* the Migration period of ca. 300 to 700 AD.
* Greek Dark Ages (ca. 1100 BCE–750 BCE), a period in the history of Ancient Greece and Anatolia from which no records, and only scant archaeological evidence, survive.
* the Bronze Age collapse
* Dark ages of Cambodia (ca. 1450-1863)
* any type of Societal collapse

In astrophysics, physics, 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 [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0227890/]
* "The Dark Age", an episode of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
* "", a 1997 fighting game for the Nintendo 64.