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| | Dark Ages - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17) |
 | | Yet Petrarch's concept of it, like that of other early humanists after him, as a discrete period distinct from our "Modern" age, has endured, and the term still finds use, through various definitions, both in popular culture and academic discourse. |
 | | In the Ancient Near East there are consistent gaps in structures, writing or works of art at many urban sites between 1200s BCE and 850s BCE, known as the "Dark Ages" of the Ancient Near East. |
 | | More specifically, the term 'Greek Dark Ages' is also used for the period in the history of Ancient Greece between the 12th century BC and 9th century BC from which no records, and only scant archaeological evidence, survive. |
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