egypt-museum:

“Of several artists known from the reign of Akhenaten… none is more famous today than Thutmose, the owner of a workshop excavated by the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft in the South Suburb [of el-Amarna] in 1912. The name of this artist was encountered quite by chance through the discovery, in a nearby rubbish-pin, of an inscribed ivory horse-blinker - which indicated that Thutmose was a man of substance, and sufficiently wealthy to possess his own chariot (no doubt a gift from the king) with fittings made from the costliest materials.

As the excavators found, the rooms of Thutmose’s villa had for the most part been swept clean before the complex was finally abandoned and the domestic furniture carried off for reuse. Fortunately for posterity, the intrinsically worthless casts, models and unfinished studies of Thutmose’s professional life were sealed away and abandoned. 

Perhaps, with Akhenaten’s death, they were considered redundant; possibly there had been in the sculptor’s mind the thought that, one day, he would return. This was a prospect entertained, if reluctantly, by many of the inhabitants of el-Amarna who neatly and carefully bricked up the entrances to their dwellings to keep them free, in the interim, from sand and squatters. And this is the condition in which, more than thirty centuries later, their ruins were eventually dug out.”

— Akhenaten: Egypt’s False Prophet, by Nicholas Reeves