The Most Deformed Royal Monarch From Each Era

The Most Deformed Royal Monarch From Each Era Ruling Egypt from approximately 1353 to 1336 BCE, Pharaoh Akhenaten is one of the most visually distinctive figures in all of ancient history, and the debate over why he looks the way he does in art has never fully been resolved. Walk through any museum with an Egyptology collection and you will notice immediately that something is different about his depictions. While traditional pharaohs are shown as idealized, muscular, and symmetrically proportioned, Akhenaten appears with a dramatically elongated skull, a protruding jaw, wide child-bearing hips, a soft pendulous belly, thin spindly limbs, and a facial structure that looks almost alien compared to every other ruler of his dynasty.