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• Ramses II—the site near Amarna had been abandoned and destroyed, along with the memory of Akhenaten's religion in the general conscience of the ancient Egyptian public.
• enormous scope of change which Akhenaten attempted—a dramatic shift in religious, political and social traditions
• In order to build Akhenaten's city and shrines at such breakneck speed, relatively small blocks were used, stones which are now called talatat
• It's often the case that what goes up fast comes down the same way.
• used his talatat, as fill in their own construction projects. But by hiding the talatat within the body of other buildings, they inadvertently protected and preserved them for modern archaeologists to find.

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