Akhenaten wasn't the most manly pharaoh, even though he fathered at least a half-dozen children. Dr. Irwin Braverman, a Yale University physician who analyzed images of Akhenaten, has a new theory on why: The female form was due to a genetic mutation that caused the pharaoh's body to convert more male hormones to female hormones than needed, Braverman believes. And Akhenaten's head was misshapen because of a condition in which skull bones fuse at an early age.
