First thing to remember: There are lots of conspiracy theories about the dollar bill’s eye and pyramid. I wanted to see which ones were most popular. So I headed to the Bureau of Engraving and ...

This was not so much a bird’s eye as the view seen by the eye above the pyramid on dollar bills. The scholastics would split the Pyramid Eye’s divine attributes as follows: First, height.

Perhaps the last significant change came in 1935 when the mysterious pyramid and eye was added to the back of the bank note. Known as the Eye of Providence, the image has sparked countless ...