The Mashco Piro were naked from head to toe, save for the rope they wore around their waists to tie their penises up. I could ...

Peru’s Congress has ousted interim President José Jerí, deepening the country’s political churn just before the April ...

Finding out what actually happened in the deep past can be a slog, so when ancient history is packaged as mystery—spine-tingling but solvable—it’s hard to resist. Who doesn’t want to know how a lost ...

Never-before-seen high-definition footage of an uncontacted Amazonian tribe has surfaced in a recent interview between an American conservationist and podcaster Lex Fridman. Author Paul Rosolie has ...

(RNS) — Since 1989, through special government permissions, about 4,000 Bnei Menashe have been able to make aliyah, but just as many people have spent years, in some cases generations, attempting to ...

The legend of the lost tribes grew not because the tribes vanished, but because the biblical record leaves their fate open-ended. Judah’s scribes shaped Israel’s story after the northern kingdom fell, ...

The issue often receives little priority from governments, which critics say see uncontacted peoples as politically marginal because they don't vote and their territories are often coveted for logging ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — From the depths of Brazil’s Amazon to Indonesia’s rainforests, some of the world’s most isolated peoples are being squeezed by roads, miners and drug traffickers — a crisis ...

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