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.
The Egyptian hieroglyphic script was one of the writing systems used by ancient Egyptians to represent their language. Because of their pictorial elegance, Herodotus and other important Greeks believed that Egyptian hieroglyphs were something sacred, so they referred to them as âholy writingâ. Thus, the word hieroglyph comes from the Greek hiero âholyâ and glypho âwritingâ.