Prehistory 13,000 BC The earliest evidence of man's interest in insects is from rock paintings. The insects depicted are bees A carving of a cave cricket from the Cave of the Trois-Frères approximates in date. 1800–1700 BC Bees were significant in other early civilisations, for instance at Malia, Crete, where jewellery depicts two golden bees holding a drop of honey. Egypt, Greek and Roman empires Scarab Beetle painted on wall of Rameses IX tomb c. 1000 BC Bee-keeping was particularly well developed in Egypt and was discussed by the Roman writers Virgil, Gaius Julius Hyginus, Varro and Columella. 620–560 BC Aesop's Fables relate stories of grasshoppers, ants and other insects. 343 BC (circa] Aristotle writes History of Animals In this work Aristotle includes insects in a class "Entoma" which also includes the arachnids and the myriapods but not the Crustacea which formed another class "Malacostraca" of the "Anaema" or "bloodless animals." ("Insecta" is the Latin translation of Aristotle's εντομον (Entomon). Parts of Animals on zoological anatomy followed. For nearly 2000 years the few writers who dealt with zoological subjects followed Aristotle's leading. AD 77–79 Pliny the Elder publishes Naturalis Historia 847 Rabanus Maurus authors the encyclopaedia De rerum naturis "On the Nature of Things" 10th–15th century AD Great chain of being 1061 Shen Kuo described the role of predatory insects in protecting crops from insect pests. 1172 Guido of Ravenna 1230-1245 Thomas of Cantimpré writes Liber de natura rerum an encyclopedia of natural history 1240 Bartholomeus Anglicus De proprietatibus rerum, "On the Properties of Things" 1250 Vincent of Beauvais Speculum Naturale treats insects, especially bees. 1250(circa) The first documented forensic entomology case is reported by Song Ci in the medico-legal text book Xiyuan Jilu. He describes the case of a stabbing near a rice field. 1258 Albertus Magnus treats insects in De animalibus. 1350 Konrad of Megenberg Buch der Natur. The first natural history in the German language. The section "Von den Würmen". Written in 1350, Buch der Natur was first printed in moveable type in 1475. NCSU Libraries owns a fragment of the fourth describes insects—both real and imaginary—and reptiles. 15th century Carlo Crivelli draws an association between flies and death in a painting of the Madonna and Child. 16th century Although the earliest pictorial record of a natural history cabinet is the engraving in Ferrante Imperato's Dell'Historia Naturale (Naples 1599) such collections became more than rudimentary early in