In the middle of the New Kingdom , around 1350 BC , when the Greeks were building their megaron palaces at Mycenae and Pylos, and the Hittites were just developing the use of iron , and the Jews were wandering around the Israeli hills, the Egyptians had a new Pharaoh who made some dramatic political changes, but also some changes in art styles which were just as interesting. The kind of art that Akhenaten liked is called the Amarna style, because Amarna was the name of the new city that Akenaten made people build for him.
Amarna art shows people in very dramatic and exaggerated ways.
Some people have thought that Akhenaten himself must have looked very ugly, because the statues of him look so weird. But probably it was just a fashion in carving statues. We have a lot of art left from the Amarna period. They seem to be a very loving family. Their god, the Aten, is represented as a circle in the sky shining down on them.