After escaping death by drowning, eleven of the crew of the ship Manbare were captured and eaten by cannibals of New Guinea. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from World. Followed categories will be added to My News. The front page of the country’s largest newspaper, the Papua New Guinea Post, depicted gruesome scenes ...

The Papua New Guinea tribe developed strong genetic resistance after a major epidemic of the CJD-like disease, kuru, spread mostly by cannibalism. Medical Research Council experts assessed more ...

A tribe in Papua New Guinea has refused to accept a series of ‘cursed’ ritual skulls made by cannibal headhunters after a Dutch museum offered to return them to make amends for colonialism.

documentary footage of the cannibal tribes of New Guinea is framed by a fictional narrative in which the scientific expedition is shipwrecked along the southern New Guinea coast in the land of the ...

Joe Biden has claimed his aviator uncle could have fallen prey to "cannibals" in Papua New Guinea after he was shot down during World War Two. But the official account of the 1944 incident from ...

Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape said Monday that he was offended by President Biden's recent comments suggesting ...

PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea — Papua New Guinea's police minister has condemned "horrific" claims of cannibalism swirling on social media, vowing "such barbarity" would not define the Pacific ...