Akhenaten really sick ? Akhénaton était-il malade ?

The depictions of Akhenaten have long interested medicine and above all endocrinology because of the eunuch gynoid morphology of this haraoh. These depictions call to mind various diagnostic hypotheses that have been successively considered as endocrinology progresses, with mphasis on the three diseases recently identified (gynecomastia family, Kennedy’s disease, and fertile eunuch syndrome), which are compatible ith the now proven fertility of Akhenaten. 2013 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.