Why The Trojan Horse Probably Wasn’t a Wooden Horse

<p>We have been told an enormous lie for centuries and centuries, according to an Italian researcher. Have you ever heard of the&nbsp;<strong>Trojan Horse</strong>, the mythical trick which&nbsp;<em>Odysseus</em>&nbsp;had used to enter Troy? Well, it turns out that it wasn&rsquo;t an actual wooden horse.&nbsp;<strong>Francesco Tiboni,</strong>&nbsp;an Italian archaeologist, revealed that the Trojan Horse was a&nbsp;<strong>Phoenician boat</strong>.</p> <p>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 ἵ&pi;&pi;&omicron;&sigmaf;, a word that meant Horse. So&nbsp;<strong>many translators confused the two words</strong>, thinking that the Ancient Greeks had built a giant wooden horse instead of a Phoenician boat.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/@fsacchi/why-the-trojan-horse-probably-wasnt-a-horse-26e7b13f53df"><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p>