Like many important discoveries, it happened by accident. Alena Slamova, a Czech graduate student in archaeology, was routinely washing some animal bones that had been recovered from a dig in an early ...

Historians have long thought that Slavic peoples did not develop an alphabet until the ninth century—but the new findings suggest otherwise. Masaryk University A Czech graduate student has discovered ...

Ihor Sevcenko, a leading scholar of Byzantine and Slavic history and literature who as a young man persuaded George Orwell to collaborate with him on a Ukrainian translation of “Animal Farm” for ...

Most Polish months don’t sound anything remotely like their English counterparts. What do these ancient Slavic names mean, and what do they tell us about life in Poland, past and present? Like many ...

Ukraine's capital has distinct Eastern European charm, cultural complexity KIEV, Ukraine -- Shining with Orthodox golden domes that rise from forested hilltops, crisscrossed by narrow cobblestone ...

Vetschau-Beyond the Spreewald lies a wondrous place. A site where present, past and future intersect. Near Lübbenau, the A15 autobahn leads past lignite mines, wind turbines, solar panels - and a ...