A recent investigation of human remains found in the UK’s Cheddar Gorge has once again brought a particularly unsavory aspect ...

After blinking into the daylight in Stilfontein, South Africa, the miners were met with police handcuffs - but said that fate ...

On Dec. 26, 1846, some members of the ill-fated Donner Party are believed to have turned to cannibalism in order to survive ...

An aerial view of one of the three shafts used by illegal miners in Stilfontein. Picture: Saps A letter sent from under the ...

Here’s what to know about the study of those remains and how it reshapes our perception of prehistory: In a recent study, ...

Archeological discoveries can reveal the brighter sides of humanity. Collecting tchotchkes, our ancestors potentially ...

For a study published in the journal Antiquity, researchers analyzed more than 3,000 bones and bone fragments attributed to dozens of individuals from the Early Bronze Age site of Charterhouse Warren ...

Archaeologists uncover a 4,000-year-old massacre in Somerset, revealing shocking evidence of violence and cannibalism in ...

India’s top court puts temporary stay on execution of man convicted of killing his mother and eating her remains ...

Archaeologists studying the Charterhouse Warren site in England found evidence of a massacre, where at least 37 individuals ...

Around 37 men, women and children, and likely "many more", were killed at close quarters and then "systematically dismembered ...

Bones recovered from a natural shaft unveil a 4,000-year-old massacre of men, women and children, possibly part of a cycle of revenge killings.