The so called ‘Baghdad batteries’ are clay vases, or jars, inside of which is a copper cylinder and inside the cylinder is an iron bar protruding a stopper made of [ … ]
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The Baghdad Vases, Batteries or Scroll Pots?
Nobody really knows for sure what the exact age and purpose of these small vases. The first claim that they were batteries occurred in 1938. See Baghdad Vases were Batteries? [ … ]
Baghdad Vases were Batteries?
When I first came across detail of these items in various articles they spoke assuredly of their being batteries from Baghdad, about 250 BC – 225 AD, a period known [ … ]