Horemheb systematically erased Akhenaten from the official king lists, demolished his monuments, and reused talatat blocks from the Aten temples as fill in new constructions at Karnak and elsewhere.
After the fall of Amarna, Horemheb's agents chiseled Nefertiti's name and image from temple walls alongside Akhenaten's, consigning her to the same oblivion that swallowed the heretic king.
Horemheb commanded Tutankhamun's armies, then seized the throne after Ay's death and struck Tutankhamun's name from the king lists, claiming credit for the restoration the boy-king had begun.
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