Talatat and Heresy

Ahkenaten was the "heretic" pharaoh who picked up the capital city and moved it to Amarna (Ahkentaten) in the 18th Dynasty. His builders were the first to use "talatat" blocks. These were stones cut in a standard size (as opposed to fitted together like a puzzle done previously). He did this to build his city and temples to Aten quickly. They were thought to have been destroyed along with all that had anything to do with the heretical Amarna period. But then a wall at Karnak was opened and archaeologists found talatat blocks used inside the walls in Karnak as support. Probably stolen in the 19th  Dynasty to build walls in Karnak they had to float them on barges hundreds of miles SOUTH or UP river to get them to Karnak.