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古埃及统治者阿赫那吞恐怕不是最有男子汉气质的法老，尽管他有半打孩子。实际上，他的轮廓相当女性化。而且，他有点儿书呆子气。

埃及統治者阿赫那吞恐怕不是最有男子漢氣概的法老，雖說他有半打孩子。但實際上，他的輪廓相當女性化。而且，他還有點兒書呆子氣。上週五馬裡蘭大學醫學院召開了史上名人死因研究的年度會議。而在研究分析了阿赫那吞的形象後，耶魯大學的一位醫師在會上作出了上述的結論。

歐文.佈雷弗曼醫生堅信法老出現女性特徵的原因是基因突變，這個變化導致了他體內轉化成雌性激素的雄性激素多出正常所需。
佈雷弗曼醫生還補充說明阿赫那吞外表看起來有點怪異，那是因為他嬰兒時期曾出現顱骨骨縫閉合。
佈雷弗曼醫生還說：“阿赫那吞的外表兼具了雙性的特徵。雖然擁有女性豐滿的身材，但他是個具有生育能力的男人，他共有六個女兒。但最終，我們還是不應忽略他擁有女性身材的事實。”
法老的體格之謎

佈雷弗曼通過肖像就能大致推斷出這個人的身體狀況，他在耶魯醫學院開設了一門課程，教授一年級的學生如何通過校內英國藝術中心的繪畫去觀察畫中人身體狀況的技巧。
在研究阿赫那吞的體格時，佈雷弗曼仔細察看了很多他的塑像和雕刻。
阿赫那吞因其在多神信仰的古埃及內採用一神論的革新行為而被世人所熟知，他大約於西元前1300年中期在位統治。

阿赫那吞娶了尼菲蒂蒂，而史上有名的圖坦卡蒙法老可能是他的兒子或他同父異母的兄弟。

Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten Had "Androgynous" Build
The ancient Egyptian ruler Akhenaten wasn't the most manly pharaoh, even though he fathered at least a half-dozen children. In fact, his form was quite feminine. And he was a bit of an egghead.

So concludes a Yale University physician who analyzed images of Akhenaten for an annual conference Friday at the University of Maryland School of Medicine on the deaths of historic figures.

The pharaoh's feminine mystique was the result of a genetic mutation that caused his body to convert more male hormones to female hormones than needed, Dr. Irwin Braverman believes.

Akhenaten's head was misshapen because of a condition in which skull bones fuse at an early age, he added.

"[He had] an androgynous appearance. He had a female physique with wide hips and breasts, but he was male and he was fertile and he had six daughters," Braverman said.

"But nevertheless, he looked like he had a female physique."

Pharaoh's Medical Mystery

Braverman, who sizes up the health of individuals based on portraits, teaches a class at Yale's medical school that uses paintings from the university's Center for British Art to teach observation skills to first-year students.

For his study of Akhenaten, he used statues and carvings.

Akhenaten (ah-keh-NAH-ten), best known for introducing a revolutionary form of monotheism to ancient Egypt, reigned in the mid-1300s B.C.

He was married to Nefertiti, and Tutankhamun, also known as King Tut, may have been his son or half brother.