People in Kazakhstan were drinking mare's milk almost a thousand years before the Great Pyramid.

3500 BC · 2560 BC · apart: 940 years

Traces of it on Botai pottery from about 3500 BC are among the earliest evidence of domestic horses.

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• The horses of the Botai culturec. 3500 BC · Northern Kazakhstan. Around 3500 BC the Botai people kept horses: their settlements hold vast numbers of horse bones, dung-filled pens and pots with traces of mare's milk. Genetics suggests that Przewalski's horses, long thought the last truly wild horses, descend from Botai stock.

35th century BC · 26th century BC

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