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For these reforms Akhenaten has been called “the world’s first idealist and the world’s first individual” <ref>Breasted, A History of Egypt, 392</ref> but he has also been called a heretic. <ref>Redford, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 269: 1</ref> Whatever his intentions were it can be said that Akhenaten’s reforms were severe and extreme, but ultimately brief. The religion of Akhenaten was forgotten almost immediately after his death, his city abandoned, his name chiseled from temple walls and the Aten virtually erased from living memory <ref>Hornung, 44.</ref> It would be three thousand years before Akhenaten’s story would spark public interest once again.

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