Archaeologists uncovered a very rare floor made of chopped cattle bones during the renovation of a medieval building in Alkmaar, photos show. Photo from Alkmaar municipality's heritage department ...

Officials say that all the bones on the floor came from cattle. Before this discovery, floors made of animal bones had only been found in the Dutch cities of Hoorn, Enkhuizen and Edam.

They expected to find typical remnants of the past, like broken pottery or small household items. Instead, they uncovered ...

ALKMAAR, THE NETHERLANDS—According to a report in the NL Times, tile flooring repaired with cattle bones has been unearthed in an early seventeenth-century building in the center of the city of ...

There, researchers unearthed piles of buried human bones, mixed in with cattle bones, that told the story of mass violence striking an ancient community. Multiple studies have covered the site and ...

But what they uncovered was far stranger: a floor partially constructed from carefully arranged cattle bones. The discovery, made in the historic city center, marks yet another example of a ...