My whole problem with this article is that it is so contrived. Tut had a broken thigh bone that became gangrenous, they found chariots in his tomb, along with bows and arrows, the flowers were picked in the winter therefore he must have been racing around in the desert hunting. Problem solved.

Not really though. From what I've seen of hunters on TV my whole life and talking to hunters the one thing that comes across is that hunting is an extremely static sport. YOU sit in duck blinds for hours, you hide on a mountain top for hours waiting for a deer to appear, or you sneak up on a lion very carefully and then shoot it. Even with all of this strategy on and weapons of the hunter's side the prey quite often escapes getting killed. As the old hunting wheeze goes the only thing the hunter killed was a case of beer. You don't go charging out into the desert in your humvee and round up a herd of antelope and shoot them at your convenience. In fact from what I can see from talking to hunters one of the purposes of high powered rifles is the ability to shoot prey from a further distance. That way instead of waiting hours for the prey to come to you or for you to chase it down you just shoot it from a quarter of a mile away.

So keeping this in mind from what I can see of these low speed chariots in Tut's tomb they would be no match for a high speed antelope that was used to outrunning even higher speed leopards, and cheetahs. In other words a chariot would be great for getting you to the hunting grounds but once you're there, it's old fashioned stealth and waiting that carries the day. Maybe a few men and dogs on the ground beating the bushes for birds and that would be about it. I simply find it difficult to believe that Tut could suffer catastrophic damage to one leg from a chariot accident while the rest of his body was in relatively good shape. (I,ll leave aside his rib cage for the moment because from what I can see nobody has been able to posit a good theory as to what happened to it.)

On the other hand though about 6 months or a year ago, there was another proposal that Tut was killed in battle. I've searched the archives but I can't find the strings. iirc the proposal, at that time, is we had a fighting mad Tut on our hands, who was killed in battle and that the damage to his knee cap and broken thigh was proof of that fact. Again we have "proof" of this in that his tombs shows numerous war scenes on his chariots and one of his chests shows him roaring into battle. Of the two I find this one the more feasible. After all we do have a credible history of pharaohs charging into battle, and one mummy where the Pharaoh was more than like ly killed in battle.