The spread of the Slavs stands as one of the most formative yet least understood events in European history. Starting in the 6th century CE, Slavic groups began to appear in the written records of ...

Iñigo Olalde, Ikerbasque Research Fellow at the UPV/EHU and Ramón y Cajal Researcher has, together with the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE: CSIC-UPF) and Harvard University, led a study in ...

Any Slavic language-speaker will have noticed the huge number of German loan words, but there are hardly any slavic-origin words in German. But let's take a look at a few which have stuck in Germans’ ...

Archaeologists in Stolpe, Germany, are crediting a badger with unearthing medieval graves from the 12th century. Reuters German archaeologists are crediting a badger with the unexpected discovery of a ...

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 ...