Temple buildings were made of stone and mortar also unlike the limestone. ... " Becoming a scholar meant you could copy and learn about libraries and books, which were sacred to Timbuktu and the Islamic world. ... Even though libraries were sacred to Timbuktu they were different than the Greater Muslim world. ...
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. ...
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. ...
