Vasile Pârvan Institute of Archaeology

The Vasile Pârvan Institute of Archaeology (Romanian: Institutul de Arheologie "Vasile Pârvan" ) is an institute of the Romanian Academy, located in Bucharest, Romania and specialized in prehistory, ancient history, classical archeology and medieval history.

Since 1999, the director of the institute is the historian and archeologist Alexandru Vulpe, a member of the Romanian Academy.

[1] The institute participates in the ARchives of European Archaeology (AREA) project, with the main research direction concerning the topic of "Archaeology abroad", investigating such aspects as: training of Romanian archaeologists in the western European countries and establishing connections with international museums and archaeologists.

[2] The institute has a professional publication with a continuous activity for over 80 years, Dacia archaeology journal, founded in 1924 by Romanian historian and archaeologist Vasile Pârvan, in whose honor the institute was named.

The original title of the journal was Dacia - Recherches et découvertes archéologiques en Roumanie, and today is called Dacia - Revistă arheologică și de istorie veche, having identical subsections in four languages: French, English, German and Russian.