How did later rulers reuse stone blocks from Akhenaten’s Aten temples?

Following the abandonment of Akhetaten (Tell el-Amarna) after the death of Akhenaten, the temples dedicated to the Aton were disassembled so that their materials could be repurposed for new construction projects.1

These temples had been constructed using relatively small, uniform sandstone blocks known as talatat, which were chosen for their convenience and speed of assembly. Because these blocks were standardized, they were easily harvested from the abandoned site and reused by later rulers. For example, Ramses II is known to have utilized many of these stone blocks for his own building works at nearby Hermopolis.21