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What is the “Baghdad Battery”? 🔋 Batteries are perhaps the most prevalent and oldest forms of energy storage technology in human history. 🔋 In 1938, Wilhelm Konig, a German archaeologist, unearthed earthenware jars of approximately the size of a human fist at Khujut Rabu, located near Bagdad, modern Iraq. These 2,200-year-old jars were comprised of an iron rod within a copper cylinder, sealed with an asphalt stopper. 🔋 It is speculated that these jars were utilized by the inhabitants of the Parthian civilization, which governed the region 2,000 years ago, as electrical batteries for electroplating gold onto silver. 🔋 According to researchers, this ancient battery could produce electric current of approximately two volts. 🔋 This assemblage has become known as the “Bagdad Battery”. ❗️ However, it is important to note that there is currently no concrete evidence supporting this speculation, and even the dating of these artifacts remains somewhat disputed. Subscribe- t.me/askmenow