Ancient Intelligence
The Baghdad Battery and the Technology of the Temple
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Elias and Clara on the Baghdad Battery: the fourteen centimetre terracotta jar from Khujut Rabu with its copper cylinder, iron rod and bitumen seal, Wilhelm König and the electroplating claim, Paul Keyser and the pain relief case, the Seleucia scroll vessels and the foundation ritual reading, and the looting of the Iraq Museum in two thousand and three that took the original with it. Follow…