The Dacian Wars, as these conflicts came to be known, were a defining period in the Dacian and Roman histories. The First Dacian War (AD 85-89) saw a strong Dacian assault under King Decebalus on ...

For centuries classicists have treated the carvings as a visual history of the wars, with Trajan as the hero and Decebalus, the Dacian king, as his worthy opponent. Archaeologists have scrutinized ...