Photo of the Day

A woman milking a mare
March 23, 2011

Kogershin Village, Kazakhstan

This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine Features

A woman milks a mare in the village of Kogershin in southern Kazakhstan. Recent archaeological studies have shown that the Botai people of the Eurasian steppes were the first to actively domesticate horses, 5,500 years ago.


See more photographs from the March 2011 feature story "Taming the Wild."

Photograph by Vincent J. Musi, National Geographic

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