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.
Ancient artists used the symbols they carved or painted in the rocks as teaching tools, message points, astronomical markers, maps, and other forms of symbolic communication. Some petroglyph images probably have deep cultural and religious significance for the societies that created them.