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 ...

Anyway, here’s what we know. The battery is based on an ancient battery called the Baghdad Battery. The ancient battery supposedly used iron and copper with a mystery electrolyte. The scrap ...

And one of the most intriguing artifacts in the history of electricity is the device pictured above, discovered near Baghdad in 1936. The Parthian Battery was a clay jar filled with vinegar ...