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An exception to most other ancient societies, Egyptian women achieved practical equality with Egyptian men. They enjoyed a lot of the same rights ad men. Legal and economic rights were afforded to both sexes. Publicly and privately a woman’s role was of great importance in Ancient Egypt. But, “it is necessary to understand that Egypt was a male- dominated society. It was essential that the wife create a home, care for the children and generally run the household.”(1) The Egyptian woman in general was free to go about in public; she certainly didn’t wear a veil or anything of that sort. There are conflicting opinions however, as to whether or not it was safe for an Egyptian woman to venture far from her town alone. For example, Ramesses (King of Egypt 1184-1153 BCE) boasted in one inscription, “I enabled the women of Egypt to go her own way, her journeys being extended where she wanted without any person assaulting her on the road.”(2) Unfortunately the women of ancient Egypt, like all women, were the victims of crime and rape. A different view of the traveling woman found in The Instructions of Any; “Be on your guard against a woman from abroad, who is not known in town. Do not have sex with her.”(