Eric Cline
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I think it's conceivable, yes.
Marfons especially has been suggested for Akhenaten.
So that's a definite possibility.
Wow.
But, you know, it's also been suggested he may have been female and not male.
Stop it.
Seriously, it's been suggested.
Yeah.
Well, I don't think it actually happened.
Look how many kids he has.
So it would be a little problematic.
But people have tried to explain why he looks that way.
I think it's just as interesting to try and explain why he agreed to be depicted that way.
I mean, every other Egyptian pharaoh before him was always depicted as a strapping 20-year-old who could bench press 250 pounds.
Exactly.
And he's like, now this is the way I look.
And this is the way everyone else in my family looks.
Now, Nefertiti, not a problem.
She's absolutely gorgeous.
Of course you depict her, but not him.