It is the place chosen by Akhenaton on the eastern bank of the Nile to build the capital of his kingdom called Akht Aton ( Horizon of Aton ) for the worship of A ton which is represented by the Sun disk emitting rays which end with human hands bestowing life on the universe . This area still has monuments of the temple and places where Akhenaton and his wife Nefertiti lived and also the royal tombs of which the of which the most important are Huya and Mery RaII tomb and the tomb of the high prieat Mery Ra 1st