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 ...

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 ...

In Czechoslovakia there has just been completed The Epic of Slavic History, a series of 20 paintings so enormous that Alfons Mucha, the artist, has been as busy with stepladders as with lexicons. For ...

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 ...

Irina Baranova Russians belong to the largest ethnolinguistic group in Europe, the Slavs. But now, as Pan-Slavism is in decline, they don’t feel so close to most of their Slavic ‘cousins’ – for ...

A Polish researcher believes he has identified the grave of an ancient warrior woman buried on the Danish island of Langeland. Leszek Gardeła, from Germany's University of Bonn, noticed something ...