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Canada to help Egypt foster democracy
I assume by the source of this article that the currency is the Canadian dollar. Canada plans to offer $11 million to help Egypt in its democracy-building efforts. Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon told Egypt’s Prime Minister Essam Sharaf and his cabinet that Canada was willing to participate in Egypt’s “transition from dictatorship to democracy.” The money... »
Musée de la Civilisacion website is fun an educational
Musée de la Civilisacion is located in Quebec, Canada. Their latest exhibit takes you back to ancient Egypt to learn about the process behind mummification, and the significance of the rituals these desert dwellers engaged in to secure a blissful afterlife. The exhibit website has a variety of features to engage the user in the... »
Royal Ontario Museum Brings Scroll and 130 Artifacts Out of Storage
This third installment of the ROM’s Out of the Vaults series, which highlights rarely seen objects from its collections for a limited period of time, is part of the museum’s Egypt Month festivities and on view in the third-floor Centre Block from February 28 to May 10, 2009. The exhibition includes funerary masks and... »
