The Thirty Years’ War devastated central Europe. Here’s how a revolt in Prague drew in the Danes, Swedes and French.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The decoded letter written by Holy Roman Emperor King Charles VStanislas Library French scientists have decoded a letter written ...

In March 1229, at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. In the silent sanctuary, a man took the golden crown with ...

I visited the Residenz Palace in Munich, southern Germany. It is the palace of the Wittelsbach family, who once ruled Bavaria ...

The video examines how the Byzantine Empire, the Holy Roman Empire and the Russian tsars each claimed to continue Rome and ...

This video reveals how the dream of Rome survived long after Rome itself collapsed – not as a clean empire, but as a broken ...

The French writer and historian Voltaire famously quipped that the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor even an empire. Names aside, a new book shows that this wide-ranging confederation ...

St.Henry II, Coronation, Incoronazione, 1002-1014 c. It’s difficult to understand the life of St Henry without considering ...

This card depicts Frederick II crowning himself in Jerusalem. His brief recovery of Jerusalem during the Sixth Crusade was taken as evidence that he was either the Last Emperor or the Antichrist.

Monday is the 400th anniversary of one of the most important events you’ve probably never heard of. On Sept. 9, 1619, King Ferdinand of Hungary, Bohemia and Croatia was crowned Holy Roman Emperor. It ...

French scientists have decoded a letter signed in 1547 by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, the Stanislas Libary in Nancy, France, has announced. The secretly-coded letter has revealed the significant ...