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 ...

Northwestern for Ukraine encouraged students to sign up for the first NU class offered about Ukrainian history in a Sunday Instagram post. Slavic 390: Ukraine’s Long Fight for Independence – ...

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 ...

In many Slavic homes, people once believed that a small guardian spirit lived quietly in the corners of the house. This spirit was called the Domovoi. Even though he was rarely seen, families felt his ...