Amarna, Egypt

What sweeps away the glory of the Egyptian Empire can be described in a few words - the contempt of the old gods, temples and priestesses of Luxor Karnak in Thebes (Luxor). And the one who did it is famous enough to be washed even today - the teenager Pharaoh Amenhotep IV. 
The consequences - a cult of Athens - the sun disk, as the only deity, the christening of the pharaoh of Ahenaten and the founding of a new capital - Acheteten. 
Amarna, also known as Tell al-Amarna, is part of this revolutionary city. Its sights are scattered over a fairly large area, and during the tour you pass through Mallaui and the small museum that collected the finds from the area.
With incredible speed, Akhenaten managed to build a whole new city with palaces, public buildings and a large temple on the east bank of the Nile. But what he invests so much strength and energy, ambition and passion does not last long.
Amarna was the capital of Egypt for about 15 years, being abandoned almost immediately after the pharaoh's death. It was then that the priests of Karnak managed to regain power and old beliefs. With great swing and passion they desecrated the temple and did everything possible to erase every memory of Pharaoh the heretic and his rebellious religion. Only ruins remain of Amarna, and the stones from its palaces and temples have been taken to other buildings. What has survived to this day are only fading contours outlined by ditches and low earth embankments, and each find has been laid and stored in various museums. The collections are reduced to two series of rock tombs carved into the rock itself, at each end of the old town.
The most blessed as material of the six northern tombs are those of the tomb of Huya and the tomb of Mary-Re I. The second series of tombs are collected in two groups quite far to the south. Of these, it is worth visiting the tomb of Mahu, as well as the tomb of Ai - the most impressive in Amarna, where the murals depict scenes from palace and street life, including paintings of gossiping neighbors, soldiers and priestesses of love. All burial chambers belong to noble and high-ranking people.
Mystery and puzzles possess Amarna and torment egyptology because the tomb of Akhenaten has not yet been discovered. It is possible that this is an unidentified tomb, simply called the Royal Tomb, hidden in a valley 5 km east of the river. Murals and texts in it are literally erased by the priests of Amon, but the surviving scenes are associated with Meketaten - the daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti. There is a possibility that this was the family tomb of the pharaohs and the last port of call of this controversial figure.