Evidence suggests that the art of falconry…
2061 BCE to 1918 BCE
Evidence suggests that the art of falconry may have begun in Mesopotamia, or in China and Mongolia, with the earliest accounts dating to approximately 2000 BCE.
There is some disagreement about whether such early accounts document the practice of falconry (from The Epic of Gilgamesh and others) or are misinterpreted depictions of humans with birds of prey.