2400 BCE – Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum are believed to be the first recorded same-sex couple in history. Archaeologists speculate that the burial corresponds to a transgender person or someone of the third sex. 2500 BCE – A burial of a suburb of Prague, Czech Republic, a male is buried in the outfit usually reserved for women. ģrd millennium BCE 29th century BCE – 25th century BCE In Neolithic Greece and Cyprus, figures are often dual-sexed or without identifying sexual characteristics. In Neolithic Italy, female images are found in a domestic context, while images that combine sexual characteristics appear in burials or religious settings. 1700 BCE – Among the sexual depictions in Neolithic and Bronze Age drawings and figurines from the Mediterranean area, as one author describes it, a " third sex" human figure having female breasts and male genitals or without distinguishing sex characteristics. Ĩth millennium BCE – 2nd millennium BCE 70th century BCE – 17th century BCE The gender of both individuals in the sculpture is unknown. 9000 BCE – The Ain Sakhri lovers is sculpted, the oldest known representation of two persons engaging in sexual intercourse. 5,000 BCE – Mesolithic rock art in Sicily depicts phallic male figures in pairs that have been interpreted variously, including as hunters, acrobats, religious initiates, and depictions of male homosexual intercourse. 1.6.1 10th century BCE – 6th century BCEīefore the Common Era 9th millennium BCE – 5th millennium BCE 100th century BCE – 50th century BCE.1.5.2 15th century BCE – 12th century BCE.1.4.3 23rd century BCE or 23rd century BCE – 22nd century BCE.1.4.1 29th century BCE – 25th century BCE.1.3.1 70th century BCE – 17th century BCE.1.3 8th millennium BCE – 2nd millennium BCE.1.1.1 100th century BCE – 50th century BCE.
1.1 9th millennium BCE – 5th millennium BCE.