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

Public domain / Wikimedia Commons The family tree of the Habsburgs, a German-Austrian ruling family whose domain stretched from Portugal to Transylvania, is a tangled one. Like many royal families ...

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

Between the 15th to 20th centuries, the Habsburgs — a German-Austrian royal family — were one of the major European dynasties. They ruled over Austria from 1282 to 1918, controlled Hungary and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...