During his short reign a vibrant new philosophical religion came to life.
Unlike the Amenite priestcraft, Akenaten taught of one loving, all-pervading Supreme Intelligence - Deity - who has provided each human soul with the potential for infinite progress in realms far higher than earth, as each discovers and embraces its true cosmic work.
The sudden end of Tel El Amarna.
Akenaten, still a young man, died in his thirtieth year. Losing not a moment, the priests of Amen seized back their power.
Immediately razing the city to the ground, they obliterated all but a few surviving traces of the City of Light - Tel el Amarna - and its founder - the Pharaoh Akenaten.
Those few fragments that escaped the hands of their destroyers - artistic works flowing with unearthly grace and beauty, emerge like a warm life-giving breath from the cold, extravagant, formula-bound hieratic art of the ancient Egyptian theocracy of that time.