Human cannibalism has appeared at different points in history across the world. In most cases, it was linked to warfare, ritual belief, survival crises, or punishment systems. Modern nations no longer ...

Certain nineteenth-century naval tragedies sparked decades of denial and controversy. Modern forensics ultimately validated ...

Sarah Everts - Author, The Joy of Sweat: The Strange Science of Perspiration References to acts of cannibalism are sprinkled throughout many religious and historical documents, such as reports of ...

A recent investigation of human remains found in the UK’s Cheddar Gorge has once again brought a particularly unsavory aspect of our human story into the light: human consumption of other humans. The ...

You must have heard or read about human cannibalism in novels, or seen it in horror movies. Cannibalism is the act of consuming an individual of the same species as food. If you were thinking that ...

Ancient human fossils unearthed at three different caves in Spain reveal that cannibalism resurfaced among early Europeans in ...

A recent study offered the “oldest decisive evidence” that our ancient hominid ancestors ate one another. But the field has a long history of overstating such claims, other scientists note. By Franz ...

There are very few scenarios where I could see myself considering the flesh of a fellow human being as food, and the ultimatum "eat today or die tomorrow" comes up in all of them. Most people are ...

An illustration from 1875 depicts the survivors of the frigate Cospatrick, which caught fire off South Africa's Cape of Good Hope in November 1874. Of more than 470 people on board, just three ...