Here's something to consider. While I know that the thread is not user friendly, and for anybody fresh to at least reading it, then I can understand that to make head or tail of it will be a nightmare, and probably dissuades some people from joining. However, the nature of this thread leads to almost a "stream of consciousness" about Amarna, where if anybody gets a sudden thought about this that or the other, they can make a post here and that can be taken up and run with, or swiftly dropped even. Atomizing Amarna will remove this, for I doubt if anybody will want to create a thread just for a sudden thought that comes into their head, which may be a thing, or nothing. This leads of course to "General thread on Amarna". But by divination I can see that it would become maybe the only thread used, and would simply recreate this thread and, by further divination, can see that any thread on Amarna on any topic could easily find itself expanding due to the interconnectivity of the subject as a whole.
With ancient Egypt as a whole it is easy to have separate threads for different topics, for while there is still this interconnectivity, it is possible to discuss pyramids, farming, coffins, weapons, social structure, and countless other topics without recourse to wandering too far off into other areas. But with Amarna we are looking at a very tight time frame of, at it's core, 17 years, though the lead up to Amarna has to be considered, and it's aftermath. This tight time frame, and the events and personalities involved, make Amarna not just a special case, but the most studied period of all ancient Egypt, and to the general public probably the most interesting aspect along with the Great Pyramid and sphinx. Joe public is not really interested in Senwosret III, or the evolution of the rishi style coffin, let alone the arcane minutiae of temple ritual, but they cannot get enough of "King Tut" and Nefertiti.