Chronicles of Ancient Darkness

Chronicles of Ancient Darkness - series of historical fantasy novels by Michelle Paver. This book is the 4337^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “Chronicles of Ancient Darkness” in English Wikipedia has 41 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 11 references and 17 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.16 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Chronicles of Ancient Darkness”, its content was written by 183 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 526 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Chronicles of Ancient Darkness is on the 4337^th place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 54 times in English Wikipedia and cited 131 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #10863 in September 2008
• Global: #24350 in December 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #134633 in September 2008
• Global: #141066 in December 2009

There are 14 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Chronicles of Ancient Darkness		40.9524
2	Dutch (nl) Avonturen uit een Magisch Verleden		30.9755
3	Swedish (sv) Han som föddes att möta mörkret		29.034
4	Chinese (zh) 遠古幽暗的紀年		22.7027
5	Turkish (tr) Tarihöncesi Günlükleri		19.7688
6	Spanish (es) Crónicas de la prehistoria		18.0904
7	Finnish (fi) Muinainen pimeys		16.2182
8	Italian (it) Cronache dell'era oscura		14.5559
9	French (fr) Chroniques des temps obscurs		14.4518
10	Japanese (ja) クロニクル千古の闇		11.3545

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Chronicles of Ancient Darkness" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Chronicles of Ancient Darkness		652 167
2	Swedish (sv) Han som föddes att möta mörkret		169 177
3	French (fr) Chroniques des temps obscurs		129 841
4	Italian (it) Cronache dell'era oscura		69 208
5	Spanish (es) Crónicas de la prehistoria		59 540
6	German (de) Chronik der dunklen Wälder		47 164
7	Dutch (nl) Avonturen uit een Magisch Verleden		46 088
8	Polish (pl) Kroniki Pradawnego Mroku		33 779
9	Finnish (fi) Muinainen pimeys		19 539
10	Hebrew (he) דברי ימי האופל		7 941

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Chronicles of Ancient Darkness" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Chronicles of Ancient Darkness		2 422
2	Japanese (ja) クロニクル千古の闇		262
3	Swedish (sv) Han som föddes att möta mörkret		250
4	French (fr) Chroniques des temps obscurs		248
5	Spanish (es) Crónicas de la prehistoria		153
6	Italian (it) Cronache dell'era oscura		133
7	Dutch (nl) Avonturen uit een Magisch Verleden		92
8	Polish (pl) Kroniki Pradawnego Mroku		84
9	German (de) Chronik der dunklen Wälder		77
10	Chinese (zh) 遠古幽暗的紀年		76

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Chronicles of Ancient Darkness" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Chronicles of Ancient Darkness		183
2	Swedish (sv) Han som föddes att möta mörkret		56
3	French (fr) Chroniques des temps obscurs		55
4	Dutch (nl) Avonturen uit een Magisch Verleden		42
5	German (de) Chronik der dunklen Wälder		41
6	Chinese (zh) 遠古幽暗的紀年		32
7	Italian (it) Cronache dell'era oscura		27
8	Spanish (es) Crónicas de la prehistoria		23
9	Finnish (fi) Muinainen pimeys		14
10	Polish (pl) Kroniki Pradawnego Mroku		12

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Chronicles of Ancient Darkness" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Chroniques des temps obscurs		1
2	Italian (it) Cronache dell'era oscura		1
3	German (de) Chronik der dunklen Wälder		0
4	English (en) Chronicles of Ancient Darkness		0
5	Spanish (es) Crónicas de la prehistoria		0
6	Finnish (fi) Muinainen pimeys		0
7	Hebrew (he) דברי ימי האופל		0
8	Japanese (ja) クロニクル千古の闇		0
9	Dutch (nl) Avonturen uit een Magisch Verleden		0
10	Polish (pl) Kroniki Pradawnego Mroku		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Chronicles of Ancient Darkness" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Chronicles of Ancient Darkness		54
2	Swedish (sv) Han som föddes att möta mörkret		19
3	French (fr) Chroniques des temps obscurs		17
4	Spanish (es) Crónicas de la prehistoria		14
5	Italian (it) Cronache dell'era oscura		6
6	Japanese (ja) クロニクル千古の闇		6
7	German (de) Chronik der dunklen Wälder		3
8	Finnish (fi) Muinainen pimeys		3
9	Dutch (nl) Avonturen uit een Magisch Verleden		3
10	Hebrew (he) דברי ימי האופל		2

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#	Language	Value
de	German Chronik der dunklen Wälder
en	English Chronicles of Ancient Darkness
es	Spanish Crónicas de la prehistoria
fi	Finnish Muinainen pimeys
fr	French Chroniques des temps obscurs
he	Hebrew דברי ימי האופל
it	Italian Cronache dell'era oscura
ja	Japanese クロニクル千古の闇
nl	Dutch Avonturen uit een Magisch Verleden
pl	Polish Kroniki Pradawnego Mroku
sk	Slovak Kronika temného dávnoveku
sv	Swedish Han som föddes att möta mörkret
tr	Turkish Tarihöncesi Günlükleri
zh	Chinese 遠古幽暗的紀年

Best Rank

English: #134633 09.2008

Global: #141066 12.2009

Best Rank

English: #10863 09.2008

Global: #24350 12.2010

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