We have been told an enormous lie for centuries and centuries, according to an Italian researcher. Have you ever heard of the Trojan Horse, the mythical trick which Odysseus had used to enter Troy? Well, it turns out that it wasn’t an actual wooden horse. Francesco Tiboni, an Italian archaeologist, revealed that the Trojan Horse was a Phoenician boat.
How then have we been misled? Tiboni argues that the error is very ancient. It appears that the word used for this specific Phoenician boat was the ancient greek ???ππος, a word that meant Horse. So many translators confused the two words, thinking that the Ancient Greeks had built a giant wooden horse instead of a Phoenician boat.