conventional long form: Republic of Peru conventional short form: Peru local long form: Republica del Peru local short form: Peru etymology: exact meaning is obscure, but the name may derive from a native word biru meaning river Government type: presidential republic Capital: name: Lima geographic coordinates: 12 03 S, 77 03 W
Hieroglyphics (sacred symbols). For a long time it was supposed that the written Egyptian language consisted solely of concepts, like a picture of a hippopotamus stood for râ¦iver, or danger, or submerge.
Best Answer: Well, there's a lot more to this symbol than this, but I can tell you as a student of Egyptian hieroglyphs that the ankh symbol is, among other things, a triliteral (three-sound) sign that sounds roughly like ankh.