One of the first known appearances of it ... America being created under God's watchful eye. So how did the symbol get so tarnished? Why is it tangled in so many conspiracy theories?

E gyptian religion was filled with magical symbols, amulets, and totems.The Eye of Horus, often called the Wadjet or Wedjat Wye, was one of the most significant. Sometimes seen as a distinctive ...

Depictions of this left eye became the powerful Eye of Horus symbol. "The wedjat is one of the most iconic amulets from ancient Egypt," Kei Yamamoto, an Egyptologist at the University of Toronto ...