The Habsburgs, one of the most powerful families in Europe, are renowned for their distinctive facial features, with some attributing these to their extensive history of intermarriage ...

The Habsburg family, once at the helm of grand Spanish and Austrian empires, are infamously identified with the "Habsburg jaw", a pronounced facial deformity. Some attribute this to the high level ...

The surgeons rated each Habsburg for these physical traits and found the least expression in Mary of Burgundy, who became part of the family through marriage in 1477, while it was most noticeable ...

Aside from the Habsburg family, harmful recessive genes for haemophilia were spread across most of Europe's Royal families due to intermarriage within Queen Victoria's extended family. Recessive ...

The Habsburgs were a powerful Royal family who ruled the Spanish and Austrian empires. A new study has suggested that their distinctive "Habsburg jaw" was caused by inbreeding ...

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

On Wednesday night, the historian from Brno, Jiří Pernes, passed away at the age of 76. He had long focused on the modern and contemporary history of central Europe, Czechoslovakia, and especially ...

Hidden medieval graffiti in the Last Supper room reveals traces of centuries-old pilgrimages through newly uncovered ...

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

The neoclassical-style Grand Hotel Fasano on Italy's Lake Garda offers a more laid-back alternative to flashy Lake Como.