The society of the times of the pharaohs arose on the ruins of a much older civilization - the civilization of the ancient gods of Egypt. Historians consider the gods to be purely mythical characters and categorically reject the version of their reality. However, in Egypt there are still a lot of evidence of the existence in a very ancient time of a powerful and highly developed civilization, the level of which, even on a number of parameters, even surpassed the level of modern mankind. Pharaohs only repaired and used the ancient structures inherited from them; and also tried to penetrate into the "secret knowledge of the gods," organizing thousands of years ago the carrying out of archaeological works on a national scale.