The surface investigations performed in the spring of 1980 on the south-west side of the second terrace of Mureş River, on the place called “Izvorul Impăratului” (“Crăcuta”), situated on the border between Alba Iulia and Pâclişa village, identified rests of human bones and fragments of vessels revealed by the plough during the agricultural works. The first archaeological investigation has been done in the fall of 2001 and discovered 22 inhumation graves. Began in the fall of 2005, the second investigation campaign took place on the central area of the early mediaeval cemetery placed above the spring that comes up from the northern hillside of DJ 107 Alba Iulia-Pâclişa. During the excavations, other 27 inhumation graves have been revealed. The third campaign of excavations continued between the 28th of July and the 13th of August and from the 12th of September to the 28th of November 2006. We traced eight sections. These are 2 m wide and have different lengths: 36 m (V), 37.90 (VI), 41.50 (VII and VIII), 36.50 (IX), 27 m (X) and 39 m (XI-XII). During the investigations, we discovere 30 kitchens maddens and provision pits, and 80 inhumation graves. The finds include a cereal pit from the Bronze Age (Wietenberg culture), four pits from early Hallstatt (B), 11 complexes for provisions from the Roman Period and 14 from the pre-mediaeval period (5th century A.D.). The graves have quadrangular, rectangular or rhombic shapes, and the pits have been dug up between 0.29 and 1.80 m depths. The subjects, placed in dorsal position, with head towards west and feet towards east, but vice versa too, have dislocated and scattered bones at the base of the ploughing layer; the plough carried these away to different distances from their initial location. The skeletons, disposed at great depth (0.50 – 1.80 m), often present dislocated and fragmented or macerated segments. In the researched area (420 square meters), 80 graves were discovered having subjects of infants I and infants II ages, juvens, adults and grown-ups, of both sexes. The inventory consists of numerous jewels (glass and onyx beads, silver and bronze earnings, simple or granulated, necklaces and three bronze fragmented interlaced bracelets; burnt clay devices from the spindle, knife blades with fastening devices on the hilt, bronze buttons, an iron sickle and clay pots, placed at the head and the feet of the deceased). Other two graves, one of a man and the other of a woman, contained a double bronze cross and a small cross worn on a string of beads. The majority of the subjects were placed directly in the non-aligned sepulchral pit; but there are situations when the ends or the lateral margins of the grave were plated with fragmentary or whole bricks, river stones and reused antique limestone slabs. Three graves were covered with a massive brutishly made slab. The poor inventory recovered from the graves assures the dating of the funerary complexes in the 10th century, in the decades before the Hungarian penetration in the central part of Transylvania. They belong to a peaceful, Christian sedentary population, identified in other localities from the middle basin of Mureş too, with Romanians (“blahi”) from Bălgrad settlement. In conclusion, the archaeological discoveries from “Izvorul Impăratului” bring forward an important contribution to prove the Romanian continuity in Transylvania and the strong economic and religious relationships between the natives and South-Danubian provinces of the Byzantine Empire.