Europeans were the real cannibals, according to new book
European royalty and eminent scholars swallowed parts of the human body as medicine, including its flesh, blood and bones, right up until the end of the 18th century, a new book on medicinal cannibalism reveals. For well over two hundred years, even as they denounced the barbaric cannibals of the New World, educated Europeans applied, drank, or wore powdered Egyptian mummy, human fat, flesh, bone, blood, brains and skin, according to the author of the book, who argues that the Europeans were in fact the real cannibals. Read more