A multidisciplinary study has reconstructed the genomic history of the Balkan Peninsula during the first millennium of the common era, a time and place of profound demographic, cultural and linguistic ...

The House of European History falls into the familiar trap of portraying the Balkans as merely a source of violence and nationalism in the context of European history. Located in the ‘European ...

It has been fifteen months since the death in The Hague of Slobodan Milosevic, the last of the 20th-century Balkan strongmen. The former leader of Serbia had been sent from Belgrade to face trial for ...

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 ...

Elizabeth Gowing’s and Robert Wilton’s book, ‘No Man’s Lands: Eight Extraordinary Women in Balkan History’ tells an absorbing story of women who fought for gender equality in the past - a struggle ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The way we write history creates the reality of the future, says a Purdue University history professor who is among several dozen international scholars who will meet next week ...

"A land bathing in the vastness of three great seas..." "A land characterized by the might of mountains that have for centuries been buffeted by fierce battles..." They could be quotes from a cheesy ...

IF MODERN TRAVEL writing was born somewhere, that place may be south-eastern Europe. A couple of centuries ago, when the Ottomans’ hold on their European territories began loosening, the region ...

The skeleton at issue in Val McDermid’s new stand-alone mystery, “The Skeleton Road,” is discovered by an acrophobic demolition surveyor atop a Victorian Gothic school in Edinburgh, Scotland. The road ...

Skull of an individual of East African ancestral origin found in Viminacium, with the oil lamp featuring an eagle found in his tomb. A multidisciplinary study has reconstructed the genomic history of ...