As the day begins in late June, people collect flowers and herbs from meadows and riverbanks, fashioning them into wreaths. They craft effigies out of willow and straw of the ancient deities Kupalo ...
KYIV, Ukraine — Hundreds of Ukrainians observed the longest day of the year on Saturday with a midsummer celebration of some of their oldest traditions, a display of cultural perseverance in a nation ...
In an extraordinary discovery that sheds light on medieval Slavic culture, underwater archaeologists have found a haunting wooden face submerged in Lake Lednica, Poland. This 1,000-year-old artifact, ...