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The Baghdad Battery: An Ancient Mystery Still Sparking Debate

What a Small Clay Jar Reveals About Curiosity, Evidence, and the Limits of Certainty In 1938, while working near Baghdad in what is now modern day Iraq, an archaeologist named Wilhelm Konig came across a curious clay jar during excavation work. The jar itself was unremarkable at first glance, roughly the size of a large…
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