Who were the Pharaoh?
Around 2700B.C. Egypt entered its first great age of power and prosperity. Known as the Old Kingdom, marked by the construction of massive royal tombs like the great Pyramid at Giza completed around 2500 B.C. Pyramids symbolized the soaring ambitions of pharaohs. Who identified with the sun god Re. One text written in hieroglyphs by a royal scribe promised that the pharaoh’s spirit would rise up from the pyramid and ‘ascend to heaven as the eye of Re”-inspiring the image on the American dollar bill.
