but akhenaten seems to think it was great. >> reporter: akhenaten was the pharaoh who built this city and his revolutionary ideas about just one god shook ancient egypt to its core. >> how are you? i'm christiane. >> i'm rahwiya. >> that's a nice name. what does it mean? >> it's a classic arabic name. it means storyteller. >> that's anent name for us. >> an egyptologist from cairo who spent years studying the ruins of amana. she says when akhenaten gave up the comfort of his palaces along the fertile nile delta and moved to this desolate place it was an act of devotion to his one god. >> why did he come here? what kind of an outlier was he? >> the idea was to find a place that has never been used by any other gods, to be virgin as what he called it. so he chose this place. >> reporter: at first glance we couldn't see much. but then a caretaker arrived to open a padlocked door and led us into one of the most beautiful tombs that we'd seen so far. even thousands of years later the walls are still covered with akhenaten's radical message of monotheism. >> the main idea is the sun and the

but akhenaten seems to think it was great. >> reporter: akhenaten was the pharaoh who built this city and his revolutionary ideas about just one god shook ancient egypt to its core. >> how are you? i'm christiane. >> i'm rahwiya. >> that's a nice name. what does it mean? >> it's a classic arabic name. it means storyteller. >> you're aptly named for us. >> an egyptologist from cairo who spent years studying the ruins of amana. she says when akhenaten gave up the comfort of his palaces along the fertile nile delta and moved to this desolate place it was an act of devotion to his one god. >> why did he come here? what kind of an outlier was he? >> the idea was to find a place that has never been used by any other gods, to be virgin as what he called it. so he chose this place. >> reporter: at first glance we couldn't see much. but then a caretaker arrived to open a padlocked door and led us into one of the most beautiful tombs that we'd seen so far. even thousands of years later the walls are still covered with akhenaten's radical message of monotheism. >> the main idea is the sun and th