“Akhenaten wasn’t just Egypt’s most controversial pharaoh—he was its most disturbing. This revolutionary ruler married his own sister, then fathered children with his own daughters. The genetic consequences were catastrophic.
When his daughter Meketaten died in her teens, early Egyptologists believed she was pregnant with Akhenaten’s child. His grandpa-grandson, the boy king Tutankhamun, suffered from inbreeding so severe that modern DNA analysis revealed deformities that likely killed him.
Historians now believe Akhenaten deliberately ignored Egypt’s laws to ‘purify’ the bloodline—a decision that backfired spectacularly and contributed to the empire’s decline.
📚 Sourced from peer-reviewed DNA studies (Zahi Hawass, 2010), Amarna tomb inscriptions, and Egyptological research.
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