St. Michael's Students Reenact Ancient Egypt

 Country Day School fifth-graders took their fellow classmates on a pretend tour of ancient Egypt during school yesterday. The students created an Egypt museum as a final project on their study of the land of the Pharaohs, described by communications director Betsy Walker as “part historical, part art, part Smithsonian."

One student presented the “Egyptian Social Pyramid,” which showed the hierarchy of the Nile, with the pharaoh at the top of the social caste system. Another student made a small reproduction of the Rosetta Stone, “the key to Ancient Egypt.”

Students even dressed up as fourth-century Egyptians, including an embalmer, scribe, queen, and even a human pyramid.