THIRD MILLENNIUM B.C. The first joint homosexual burial take place. The Tomb of Two Brothers at Thebes is an Egyptian sepulcher that contains the remains of two men, Niankhnum and Khnumhotep, who are believed to have been lovers. The walls of the tombs have bas reliefs that show the two men embracing. 1900 B.C. According to the Book of Genesis, the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah are destroyed with fire and brimstone. This is interpreted by Philo of Alendria centuries later and then by religious writers to have been a wrathful God's punishment for the homosexuality of the inhabitants.