Editing Timeline of zoophilia (section)

===1st millennium BCE===
====7th century BCE====

* '''c. 700 BCE''' – '''c. 601 BCE''' – A cave painting is painted in Val Camonica, Italy depicting a man inserting his penis into the vagina or anus of a donkey.<ref name="Bestiality and Zoophilia: Sexual Relations with Animals" />

====6th century BCE – 4th century BCE====

* '''c. 538 BCE – 330 BCE''' – The Book of Deuteronomy is written during this period and within the text it states the following:

{{quote|text="Cursed be anyone who lies with any animal." All the people shall say, "Amen!"<ref>{{Bibleverse||Deuteronomy|27:21|NRSV}}</ref>|source=<nowiki>Torah]] / Bible, Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 27, Verses 21</nowiki>}}

====6th century BCE – 3rd century BCE====

* '''c. 538 BCE''' – '''c. 250 BCE''' – The Book of Leviticus is written during this period and within the text it states the following:

{{quote|text="You shall not have sexual relations with any animal and defile yourself with it, nor shall any woman give herself to an animal to have sexual relations with it: it is perversion. Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, for by all these practices the nations I am casting out before you have defiled themselves."<ref>{{Bibleverse||Leviticus|18:23-18:24|NRSV}}</ref>|sign=|source=Torah / Bible, Book of Leviticus, Chapter 18, Verses 23–24}}

{{quote|text="If a man has sexual relations with an animal, he shall be put to death; and you shall kill the animal. If a woman approaches any animal and has sexual relations with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal; they shall be put to death, their blood is upon them."<ref>{{Bibleverse||Leviticus|20:15-20:16|NRSV}}</ref>|sign=|source=Torah / Bible, Book of Leviticus, Chapter 20, Verses 15–16}}

The Book of Exodus is written during this period and within the text it states that:

{{quote|text="Whoever lies with an animal shall be put to death."<ref>{{Bibleverse||Exodus|22:19|NRSV}}</ref>|source=Torah / Bible, Book of Exodus, Chapter 22, Verse 19}}

====5th century BCE====

* '''c. 486 BCE''' – King Darius I adopts the holiness code of the Book of Leviticus for Persian Jews of the Achaemenid Empire, enacting capital punishment for bestiality.<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Dynes |editor-first=Wayne |title=Encyclopedia of Homosexuality, Volume 2 |date=1990 |pages=1418 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=g7TOCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT668&lpg=PT668&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false |isbn=9781317368113}}</ref>
* '''c. 440 BCE''' – In ''Histories'', Herodotus wrote that:

{{quote|text="In my lifetime a strange thing occurred in Mendes{{!}}this district: a he-goat had intercourse openly with a woman."<ref>{{cite book |author=Herodotus |editor=A. D. Godley |title=Histories |chapter=Hdt. 2.46.4 |chapter-url= http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0126%3Abook%3D2%3Achapter%3D46%3Asection%3D4 |isbn=978-0674991309}}</ref>|source=Herodotus, ''Histories (Herodotus){{!}}Histories'', Book 2, Chapter 46, Section 4}}

====1st century BCE====

* '''c. 27 BCE''' – At the beginning of the Roman Empire, legal retribution for bestiality was required only for [[sodomy]], under which bestiality was included.<ref name="Bestiality and Zoophilia: Sexual Relations with Animals" />