[snapdangle]

One explanation is that he made drastic reforms related to the tax collection capacity of the priestly class. This was in addition to/a consequence of his re-conceptualization of the state religion.

After he was deposed by that same priestly class, they did the thing that usually happens -- defiling all monuments and writing a version of the events that put them in the best possible light.

[empath75]

I think that everything in history comes down to taxes eventually.

[eponeponepon]

I think the exact changes that he (or his agents) made are kind of immaterial - ultimately, it seems, he tried to implement too large a change too suddenly, and it failed.

There's a lesson in Akhenaten's history for many areas of many sectors - not least the tech sector.

[firethief]

I find it hard to imagine such a vague lesson lending support to any view I don't already agree with