The holes are later enlarged with stalks of grass until they are long enough to insert a plug that is usually made out of clay, wood, stone or metal. The women of Southern Chad and Sudan wear lip plates that cause the mouth to protrude in a way resembling the beaks of birds, such as the Spoonbill and Broodbill, which the people of Chad and Sudan worship as sacred. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Unlike the Sumerians, the Egyptians continued with their picture-writing system (Hieroglyphics, Greek for "sacred carving"). ... In 1799, the Rosetta stone was discovered and Hieroglyphics were finally able to be translated. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When European settlers discovered ruins of great civilizations at Mapungubwe in South Africa and Great Zimbabwe in Zimbabwe (then the British colony Rhodesia), they concluded that black Africans could not have built these marvelous stone cities. ... Ife is the sacred city of the Yoruba people. ...

• Word Count: 1298
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate