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Week of April 6: 42,000-Year-Old Horse with Liquid Blood, Sohag Ostraca Find, and More

Scientists extracted liquid blood from a 42,000-year-old prehistoric horse foal discovered in Siberia's Batagaika crater—the oldest liquid blood ever recorded. An Egyptian-German team uncovered 13,000 ostraca at Sohag near the Temple of Athribis, bringing the total to 43,000 and establishing the site as the largest collection ever found at a single location in Egypt. Researchers identified 9,000-year-old Mesolithic shaman remains at Bad Dürrenberg adorned with flower pollen, including meadowsweet, mullein, and buttercup, along with a deer antler headdress and dental modifications indicating survival through ritual practices. A comprehensive study of 200+ objects from Central Europe revealed that early modern humans developed structured information encoding systems approximately 43,000 years ago, with geometric signs exhibiting information density comparable to proto-cuneiform tablets from 3,000 BCE.

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