In Trojan War mythology, what wooden object concealed Greek soldiers inside Troy?

In Trojan War mythology, the Trojan Horse concealed Greek soldiers inside Troy.

The Greeks were said to have built the wooden horse after a long siege and left it outside the city as an apparent offering or abandonment. Greek warriors hid inside it while the rest of the fleet pretended to sail away and waited nearby.

The Trojans brought the horse within their walls, traditionally after accepting the deceptive explanation that it was a sacred gift. At night, the hidden soldiers emerged, opened the gates, and allowed the returning Greek force to enter Troy.

The episode is central to later accounts of the war’s fall, but it is not narrated in Homer’s Iliad. The horse appears in later works and summaries of the broader Trojan War tradition, including Virgil’s Aeneid.