Aidan Dodson

And then the whole play, and in doing so, they start dismantling their houses because there are bits which are made of good quality imported wood.

So gradually, the whole thing starts falling into ruin.

Hmm.

We know that there is still something going on in the reign of Horemheb there.

The Riverside Temple is still active.

It looks as though the whole place rapidly falls down from being the capital city of an empire through down to simply being... The Milton Keynes roundabouts get overgrown.

It's getting to that sort of level.

And as far as we can tell, it just simply withers away.

And by the time, a few decades later on, it's basically tumbleweed is going down the streets.

But the important point is that by that time, by the time of Reign of Ramesses II, a few decades later, what they're doing is now knocking down the temples and reusing the stone for the foundations of new temples on the other side of the river.

Immediately.

Because we've got the Amun cult is up and running again within a year or two of Akhenaten's death.

So it's quite clear that it's the moment, well, those cases, a bit like the death of Stalin, when suddenly the... Bloody Mary in the English Reformation, yeah.

The moment that the tyrant, or whatever you want to call him, is dead, I think immediately everybody goes, breathes a sigh of relief, and simply says, OK, we're going to forget all that happened.

Let's just move on.

And it looks like we've certainly got Amon Cult...

back without any kind of kind of problems almost immediately the big issue is is tidying up the mess because you've had temples which have had no funding for you know for a decade and you've also got the amman temples with no statues of amman left because they've all been pulverized by akhenaten so what the big thing is then oh and this takes decades for them to actually restore all of this

Yeah.

This is the early part of the reign of Tutankhamun.

Unfortunately, the year date is broken away.