Akhenaten's capital city, "The Horizon of the Aten" (Tel-El Amarna)
Before Akhenaten abandoned Thebes, the former capital city, he built a series of sun temples dedicated to the god Aten. One of his greatest building programs was the new capital city, 'The Horizon of Aten'.
Zahi Hawass writes: Dating to this point in Akhenaten’s reign was a campaign to excise the name of gods other than the Aten, especially Amun, from the monuments of Egypt. This was done with violence: hieroglyphs were brutally hacked from the walls of temples and tombs. This was probably carried out, at least in part, by illiterate iconoclasts, presumably following the orders of their king. [Akhenaten] carried out a religious revolution the like of which had never been seen before in Egypt. His reign represents a significant departure from religious, artistic, and political norms (42-43).
Nancy Parker writes: Akhenaten is believed to be the world’s first monotheist by putting his faith in a single god (although other gods were still mentioned in inscriptions). His belief in the one god, Aten, was so powerful that he moved his capitol city from Thebes, one of the largest cities in Egypt at the time, to the city of Akhetaten (modern-day Amarna). This city was to be a tribute to the sun disc god and roughly translates as “Horizon of Aten”. Akhenaten began removing depictions of other gods as he pushed his people to follow his monotheistic view. Statues, carvings, and paintings of other deities were defaced or destroyed. Any tribute or economic gains offered to other gods were absorbed into the new belief system.
Although Akhenaten did have an avid building program as he rushed to worship the god Aten, after his reign a movement was made to destroy all the buildings he has created in worship to Aten, and his capital city was left to rot in the desert. He had failed to make a difference in Egypt's religious policy and he has failed his people by not maintaining Maat within the empire. His legacy was left destroyed and abandoned.