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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A hundred years on from the Sarajevo assassination, schools in former Yugoslav countries are teaching different histories about the causes of the 1914-18 war, reflecting more recent conflicts. This ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jasmin's Heart writes about deliberate distortions that often pass for the recent history of the Balkans: “Also, history, as written by too many historians here, in recent years, Croatian historians, ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Europe's recurring nightmare in the Balkans has returned. On June 15, ...

"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 ...