Here's a statue and a carving of Akhenaten, and here's one of Ramses the second. While Ramses's depiction is standard for how the pharoah's generally were depicted, Akhenaten looks almost alien-like with his slanted eyes, elongated head, slender frame and wide hips. What is the reasoning behind this depiction? I know that there was sort of a character-assassination policy led by his son Tutankhamun to tarnish his legacy (which is what I assumed was the reasoning behind this bizarre depiction, as sort of an insulting reminder of the heretic that almost destroyed the Egyptian religion), but most of the statues/carvings depicting him were made when he was alive, with his permission and blessing. Did he have some kind of ailment or disease like his son (who was still shown to be normal looking in his statues and carvings) from successive generations of inbreeding? or was he a foreigner who looked different from the rest of the population?