Some researchers propose that the Trojan Horse may preserve a distorted memory of real siege technology. A wooden siege engine covered in horse hides — perhaps a battering ram or a mobile protective shelter — could have been the original 'horse.' Over centuries of oral transmission, a practical military machine could have grown in scale and mystique until it became the giant hollow horse of legend. This theory does not prove the horse existed, but it offers a plausible bridge between archaeological reality and literary myth.