Researchers examined historical portraits of these monarchs to study their unusual facial quirks and trace familial ties ...

The reluctant empress known as "Sisi" painstakingly crafted her image through portraits and photographs, ensuring she would ...

The Empress is back on Netflix for Season 2 and has history buffs sniffing for a lesson in one of Europe's most famous ...

the 13th-century palace was the winter residence of the Habsburgs, and a center of power for some 600 years. These days, the Hofburg Palace is residence and office of the President of Austria ...

In this work, Dr. Mitchell, a veteran policy analyst who is currently Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, takes a look at the “Habsburg Puzzle”. That is, the success of the ...

The Habsburgs were once the most powerful family in Austria, but as they tried to strengthen the bloodline by intermarrying, a lack of genetic diversity ended up being their downfall. What Was on ...

There are more than a dozen other statues in the hall of Austrian dukes and Habsburg rulers, by the Strudel brothers (one of whom, Paul Strudel, also worked on Vienna's Plague Column or Trinity ...

In a number of ways the Seleucid empire bears some interesting parallels with that of Austrian Habsburgs, both rather ramshackle entity lacking ethnic, geographic, religious, cultural, or any other ...

One study has suggested that a distinct facial deformity seen in the Habsburg dynasty was caused by inbreeding, which was ...

The Habsburgs ruled vast swathes of Europe for more than 200 years but the dynasty became known for its inbreeding as well as ...