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Thank you. It's around 1330 BCE in Amarna Egypt. Sculter Thutmos grunts with effort as he reaches up and places a limestone sculpture high on a shelf.

Thutmos is known as one of the finest artisans in the

country, and he's made hundreds of pieces of art, but this one is the last he'll ever make in this

workshop. For a decade, Thutmos has made a good living here in Amarna. But a few weeks ago, the Pharaoh

died, and barely a week had passed before his successor, his wife Nefertiti,

left the city. Nefertiti didn't share her husband's love for Amarna and made it clear that she

was never coming back. Since then, hundreds of the city's residents have packed up and followed her.

Now Thutmos has reluctantly decided to close his workshop and leave with everyone else.

Thutmos opens the door, then turns to take one last glance around. The workbench is clear, his tools are in his

bag, and he stacked all his unfinished or unsold sculptures on the shelf. Although he spent weeks working on

them, Thutmose decided to leave them behind rather than pay to transport them

out of the city. As Thutmos is about to step outside, a gust of wind blows through the street

and catches the door, slamming it shut. The vibration of the door's impact is too much for the

wooden shelf, and it falls to the floor, and Thutmos' sculptures with it. With a sigh, Thutmos looked at the

artwork he spent so much time on, most now shattered into dozens of pieces. But there's nothing

he can do now. As his feet crunch on the fragments of stone, he pushes the door open again

and walks out for the last time.

Since everyone else is leaving the city of Amarna, no one bothers to clean up the mess in Thutmos' workshop. Gradually, Amarna will be covered by Egypt's shifting sands, and the

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