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Where to read research about the Dacians

Scholarly journals and works of reference on the Dacians and Dacia, with links to the volumes that can be read online.

Scholarly journals

  • Dacia. Revistă de arheologie și de istorie veche (Journal of Archaeology and Ancient History) · “Vasile Pârvan” Institute of Archaeology, Romanian Academy. Founded in 1924 by Vasile Pârvan, with a new series from 1957. The volumes are online as PDF files, for example volume LVI (2012), with a study on the Capitolium of Sarmizegetusa, and volume LXVIII (2024).The volumes of the journal
  • Anuarul Sargetia · Museum of Dacian and Roman Civilisation, Deva. ISSN 1013-4255. It has appeared since 1937, and the first volume (1937) is digitised.Anuarul SargetiaThe first volume (1937), PDF
  • ReDIVA · Published on the website of the Study Centre of the Dacica Foundation. The issues of 2013, 2014 and 2015 are online, for example “Sarmizegetusa Regia on the Austrian map of 1804”, by Aurora Pețan.The ReDIVA issues
  • Ephemeris Napocensis · Institute of Archaeology and Art History, Cluj-Napoca. An archaeological journal.The page of the journal

Works of reference

  • Sarmizegetusa Regia. I. Redescoperirea cetății (Sarmizegetusa Regia I: The Rediscovery of the Fortress) · Aurora Pețan, Editura Dacica, Alun, 2018. 600 pages, ISBN 978-606-8538-00-6.
  • Getica · Vasile Pârvan, 1926.
  • Limba traco-dacilor (The Language of the Thraco-Dacians) · Ion I. Russu, 1967.
  • De la Zalmoxis la Genghis-Han (From Zalmoxis to Genghis Khan) · Mircea Eliade, 1970.

The ancient sources cited on the site, with online editions: Historical archives.