Akhenaten founded Akhetaten ('Horizon of the Aten') on virgin ground at modern Tell el-Amarna, carving boundary stelae into the surrounding cliffs and swearing never to expand the city beyond its limits.
Akhetaten was founded as a deliberate rejection of Amun's Thebes, Akhenaten building his new capital on virgin ground free from the theological influence of the god he sought to supplant.
Akhenaten founded Akhetaten on virgin ground in Middle Egypt as the Aten's sole earthly dwelling, a city of open-roofed temples where the sun disk's rays could fall unobstructed upon its altars.
The Great Hymn to the Aten was composed and inscribed at Akhetaten, the purpose-built capital where Atenist theology reached its fullest expression in tomb reliefs and temple inscriptions.
Nefertiti is named alongside Akhenaten on the boundary stelae that marked the limits of Akhetaten, the sacred city where she presided over the Aten's open-air temples as co-regent.
Tutankhamun abandoned Akhetaten, his father's purpose-built capital, returning the royal court to Memphis and Thebes. The city was systematically dismantled under his successors.
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