In ye olden days, I would have said, Booo. These days, I would look forward to the challenge with rellish.

Some suggestions:
1. "Borrow" one from a local museum
2. Try carving one from plywood--or if you want, something more authentic like a date palm
3. Papier mache (or however you spell that) may work. who knows?

Also, to impress your teachers, you could construct a barque in which to carry your sarcophagus--the kind of boats Kings of egypt were carried in at death.

A side note: the word "pharoah" actually was not the term for king. it's a mistranslation on the part of Herodotus, and actually means "Great House", referring to a palace and not a king.

@Fd, I already look forward to the challenge, It's worth about 1/4 of my grade this quarter, and that could bring my grade from an 87 to somewhere in the 90s. (Yes, I know I'm a perfectionist)

@Wilde, I like the first Idea, but we'll probably be using some light wood for it, seeing as we have to carry it from the Humanities room on one side of the building to the theatre on the other side.

Get good pictures, and then decide which materials would be best to use to make it. You coulduse wood and then paint it the right way or sth. Wood carving is not that difficult, or thats what they tell me, so you can even carve out a Pharo(sp?) on the lid

pish.. projects the most elaborate of projects that i've ever done is making a CD holder for my DT (design tech) class.

make it. plywood, whatever. make it sturdy. dont ask me how you're gonna make the curved sides. i'd go to a coffin shop and buy a coffin.

yeah you could do that--buy a coffin and paint an image on the front. some pointers:
1. the monarch must be wearing the typical egyptian headdress and beard design.
2. the monarch's arms must be crossed across his chest, one bearing a crook and the other a flail.

you can also stick in some drawings of Osiris on the side...maybe a scene of the "weighing of the heart" (a ceremony in which the heart of every person is weighed against Maat's feather of truth. Thoth, the god of wisdom, records the results, Anubis weighs the scales, and Osiris presides over. If the man's heart is heavier than the feather, he is thrown to the hippogatorcat and devoured.)

You need a short cut that does not involve studying or construction.

Get your team together and make a weekend appointment to see your professor.
Try to get the appointment at a time when the building is as deserted as possible.

When your group heads in, bring a loaded .45 automatic and a large pillow.

When you meet the professor, slam his head down on his desk and put the pillow over his head and hold him in place. Then just barely touch the .45 to the pillow, aiming at his head.

DO NOT RAM THE GUN INTO THE PILLOW as this will cause the slide to move backward slightly and out of battery, thus rendering the gun unable to fire.

After you have done all this, you can assume you have the guy's attention.

Explain to him in a calm soft voice that your team has just won the contest or his brains have just been spattered on his desk and it's his choice.

I guarantee that you will all get an A without having to do any paper mache

Trust me on this

Glock36
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Nice one, Glock. The only problem with that is that there are two professors in the class and we don't have two .45s.