A new study has delved into the debate about the use of an ancient artifact discovered in Iraq nearly a century ago but that ...
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Was the mysterious ‘Baghdad battery’ secretly 2 ancient power cells?
The so‑called Baghdad battery has long sat at the crossroads of science, archaeology, and speculation, its humble clay jar ...
A new study suggests it had an 'outer' cell that reacted with air to supply a higher voltage. But was it a battery at all?
The Baghdad Battery has sat awkwardly in the archaeological record for decades. It was found near Baghdad, at the Parthian ...
Diaries and writings from ninth-century Baghdad provide a glimpse of the weird weather from the era, findings that could help researchers reconstruct past climate. The surviving documents were written ...
The Baghdad Battery is believed to be about 2000 years old (from the Parthian period, roughly 250 BCE to CE 250). The jar was found in Khujut Rabu just outside Baghdad and is composed of a clay jar ...
Compared with the ancient Mesopotamian capital of Babylon 55 miles to the south, Baghdad is a new city. It appeared as a settlement next to the Tigris in pre-Islamic times, at least by 1800 B.C. But ...
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