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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

‘Slavic’ is a term that represents a settlement of the Central Indo-European people as a whole. They are deemed the largest Indo-European ethnolinguistic tribal group in Central Europe. The Slavic ...

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 ...

This article was produced as part of JTA’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives. I grew up speaking Russian ...