In visualizing myself transporting back in time to 2000 BC Thebes Egypt while maintaining my present genetic composition, gender, family and social status; there would be similarities in addition to advantages and disadvantages. I am a woman, a widow, mother, grandmother, proprietress, and social advocate. I, my son, my daughter, and her twin daughters live within the same household. Each of us inherited equal portions of their father’s estate and my daughter inherited her late husband’s property. The information afore mentioned would be in Egypt as it is in the present.

In Egyptian society women enjoyed considerable legal rights and were afforded the possibility of economic independence. My daughter could have managed the household by delegating responsibility and hiring an overseer for our agricultural business. As a grandmother I would as I do now, lavish adoration on my granddaughters and share my wisdom with them. My son is an intellectual and philosopher; he would have been receiving an education in Alexandria.

My gifts of time management, linguistics, and advocate for the socially disadvantaged could have been translated into Egyptian society. Women could inaugurate court cases, act as witnesses, and handle legal documents and transactions. There were no restrictions on the amount of property and other amenities that a woman, married or unmarried, could own. Throughout history the women in our family have never been subjected to illiteracy. Although Educational institutions in ancient Egypt were restricted to male admissions; private tutors or other educated family members could have been employed to educate the daughters.
The disadvantage to living in ancient Egypt would be their lack of scientific knowledge regarding the human body and medicine. Being diabetic and insulin dependent with hypertension, my longevity would have been minimized. Although the experience would be an interesting one, I prefer life in the present.

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