Dark Ages

Dark Ages or Dark Age may refer to:

History and sociology

• Dark Ages (historiography), the use of the term Dark Ages colloquially and by some historians.
• 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
• 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

Film and television

• Dark Age (film), a 1987 Australian film directed by Arch Nicholson
• Dark Ages (TV series), a 1999 British sitcom
• ', a 2012 British documentary television series
• ', 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

• 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
• ', a 2025 video game