Ruth Fraňková

The Venus of Petřkovice, a statuette from the late Stone Age period believed to be 23,000 years old and valued at EUR 50 million.

After dropping for three consecutive years, the number of suicides in Czechia increased in 2022. 

After years of legal disputes, the City of Prague and the descendants of painter Alfons Mucha have finally reached agreement over ownership rights to the Slav Epic. 

Jan Hocek is an enthusiastic traveller, tourist guide and columnist. In 2020, he created a network of long-distance tourist and pilgrimage routes called Via Czechia.

Czechs harvested nearly 39,000 tonnes of forest fruits worth almost eight billion crowns last year, and six out of ten Czechs visited the forest at least once a month.

Recycling water from sewage treatment plants is a common practice in many countries with a warmer climate. A team of experts is now testing its possibilities in Czechia:

According to the Ministry of Interior’s biannual report on extremism, the anti-establishment, anti-government movement in Czechia has been gaining strength.

A new method developed by Czech scientists could eliminate the unpleasant side effects of cancer therapy.

Three Czechs who risked their lives to save nine members of a Jewish family from the Holocaust have been recognised in memoriam as Righteous Among the Nations.

Matěj Číp, a musician from a small village in Moravia, has devoted his life to playing the cimbalom, a hammered dulcimer from Central-Eastern Europe.