baghdad battery - a battery of the ancient past?

[JCDennis62]

Thats funny your the only ones that think this !

[TVwriter23]

Could it be that the batteries were used for something else? Plus why would the tech look like tech today?

[eleutheromaniac]

lol, they're probably not even using it right. i can just imagine morons like this thousands of years from now

"these ancient round discs, inscribed with a ritual marking 'DVD', were often used in ceremonies by women to help them apply make-up before being sacraficed. the disc would indicate which god the female was to be sacraficed to: this particular disc shows a picture of a common diety called 'Har y P tter'. as the mark on his forehead indicates, he was their god of lightning."

[TVwriter23]

@eleutheromaniac That reminds me of the Sliders episode with the Pepsi can. Or was it Coke? Can't remember, but it was funny how the future archeologists got it's use wrong.

[cchanderson]

Well if they haven't found any Gold plated silver then....um....

[Poundingthunder]

A "ritual assemblage of objects" ? Really? Is that the best explanation he can come up with? What a weak ass claim!!! But since he is a "Doctor" with the British museum, people will believe this HACK!

[mrfillip13]

i think those fkrs were making bombs a long time ago hahaha

[mrfillip13]

i think those fuckers were making bombs a long time ago hahaha

[killak2115]

more damn theories, let it die, next they'll find airplanes from mars

[chocolatesteak]

why else would they build this? i'm sick of labeling pre rome/judea people as apes

[azul2020]

people of ancient Egyptian had electricity ?

[ignatei]

@azul2020 No, this is a battery. And that was used by Persians, not by Egyptians.

[Inu4kagome]

From Africa to Iraq, Peace, love and you guys are somebody!!!! Don't let the white media and the bombs crashing over you keep you down!! May you and the rest of the world wake up!!! I know we have our problems but we can fix them ourselves like our ancestors. They cover up your history just like ours!! Hotep family

[howudoin770]

@Inu4kagome that was relevant

[69theusualsuspects69]

I'm bet theres plenty of ways to make electricity that we may not know about and I bet after the recent way its been generated made or whatever people probably just stopped looking at ways to create it.

[amandeepsingh15]

they had no bulbs orammeters at that time... what they did with these batteries?

[OrganicThumb420]

actually type in ancient light bulb, they have already recreated an ancient based on hieroglyphics maybe these batteries were used to power lights

[RyanADillon]

Why do they just assume that because the potential is there to electroplate silver with gold that they actually knew about the process AND performed it? Surely the best thing to do is to find something from the era that was actually electroplated rather than make assumptions based on no evidence.

[ashishfxts]

Yea, he is an archeologist (sarcasam). And he proved it, good way to say hey people built pyramids, moved rocks which weighed tonnes but didn't have the technology to generate electricity!!!!

[Ebdan88]

Bagdad at the time was a Part of persia. The man who made these Was Called RAZI. The king wanted more GOLD and he put his sienticts to work. Razi made GOLD for the king with these Batteries. Razi was the first man in known history that said our world is turning around the sun. He also was the first man who made Alkohol.......

[Gassebol]

It was the Annunaki ALIENS from the sumerian mythologi who taught them this!

[kyleismrsmiley]

The baghdad battery is further proof that nothing new has been invented, only improvements.

[Jokuma15]

I'm confused why didn't the battery spread all around Africa?

[ellerion09]

@Jokuma15 because it wasn't cheap. its materials were uncommon and the process of making it was very sophisticated.

[JonP1961]

@Jokuma15

They hadn't mastered Logistics yet :P

[Jokuma15]

@JonP1961 lol, but still why did it take so much longer for men like Thomas Edison or Benjamin Franklin to know stuff like this, we could of been several steps ahead of ourselve right now, well maybe.

[EYEthatwatchestheEYE]

i wanna slap that archeologist in the beard. its amazing how some people get phd's and still be retarded. if you connect these batteries in series you can get much much higher voltages. "DUH IT WAS FOR RITUAL THINGYS DERRRR" jackass.

[fidi08]

Some ancient ritual - way to sling some bull

[issareign]

the world is run by a continuation of of power elites who create society, then collapse it, only to recreate it out from the ashes of the previous one. its how they aimed to rule the planet, from nomadic tribes, to dependent slaves.

[Tigris363]

this is not a new thing iraq has alaways been the center of advancements throught its glouris history

[leslucas]

@Tigris363 What happened?

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[wlodzio47]

Perhaps ALIEN ( Osirian ) civilization derived knowledge from Slavic Arian not the other way.Actualy Osirians destroy human civilization an they continue to do so to this very day. ARKAIM 109000 bc ancient city build by Slaws Arian . They had kitchen stoves bathrooms plumbing etc..

[kenzeus]

@wlodzio47

Nop a cosmic serpent destroyed human civilization.

comic serpent = meteorite or comet.

[rebornmoo]

The last History Channel show I saw on this tried to claim it was proof of aliens advancing ancient culture. Of course this is the new History channel, which presents things like Satan building an army as historical fact.

[guyontheend]

this video clips and breaks up a lot

[WatchTowerAlpha2013]

yea, it's just the most relevant parts, I took out most of the rambling. Didn't spend a lot of time re-editing it.

[TVwriter23]

Why can't people grasp the idea that the ancients had technology or thought of technology that are similar to what we have today. It might not look the same, but I'm not arrogant to think that we are the most advanced. Seriously ancient Romans had a version of flushing toilets in their own right and a system so that people could wash their hands after words. Apparently this was common around the world around the same time. So if that's true we just lost tech and then rediscovered it.

[TenderTrap86]

@TVwriter23

A very good commet. People usually tend look at the people of the past as inferior in almost everyway. However, this battery could prove otherwise. The ancient Egyptians may have also used electricity as depicted in hieroglyphics. There is no soot whatsoever found in many places inside the ancient pyramids. Speaking of the pyramids, modern engineers have small comprehension regarding it's construction. The Baalbek Stones, the Yonaguni Monument, and many others: how did they do it?

[Dirtymurder]

You just compared a toilet to a battery.

[TVwriter23]

@Dirtymurder point?

[Dirtymurder]

My point is that redirecting water to wash away shit is a bad comparison for a battery which is a arrangement off refined metals in a vessel with a acidic liquid. for the purpose of electroplating. So you comparison is shit, Get It !

[TVwriter23]

@Dirtymurder

"My point is that redirecting water to wash away shit is a bad comparison for a battery which is a arrangement off refined metals in a vessel with a acidic liquid. for the purpose of electroplating. So you comparison is shit, Get It !"

No. Doesn't make it any less valid. The fact is that during the dark ages people were throwing piss out of pots.

[Dirtymurder]

YA but not because they forgot about using running water in houses, Because it was the Dark Ages, they couldn't have luxuries like running water. It was like a down turn in the economy. Hence DARK AGES

[biterface03]

@Dirtymurder im sorry, and in no way am i trying to TRUMP you..

but man, according to this Book "SOLOMONS BUILDERS" by Christopher Hodapp, the dark ages had a TOTALLY different Meaning, Purpose, and Representation..

The Dark Ages represented a MASS UNIFICATION of Common Men joining Free Masonry and beggining the quest to achieve "SPIRITUAL ENLIGHTENMENT.."

it states that masons are about "seeking the light",

and most folk were too ignorant to realize there was "light"..

Hence DARK AGES?

lmao

[biterface03]

@TVwriter23

i guess they figure that if ancient Egyptians had Twitter/Myspace/Facebook, we wouldn't be so innovative and unique as a modern day society.

lmao

naww seriously tho, it seems that denial is something that is abundant in modern day society..

the baghdad battery, and the lightbulbs in the pyramids is a completely LOGICAL and RATIONAL explanation..

it generates electricity thru a CLAY POT with COPPER LINING and An ASPHAULT sTOPPER with an IRON rod..

The Liquid was the key..

[biterface03]

@biterface03 and the liquid was simle ELECTROLYTE passing Liquids..

WINE/OJ/GRAPEJUICE..

but then, that sparks the question..

who had COMMON KNOWLEDGE BACK THEN,

(mind you it is ancient egypt..)

to think of using CONDUCTERS, SEMI-ACIDIC LIQUID, and clay to make a battery??

next question is why, where, and from WHOM did they receive the BASIC concept for the technology????

[fred10538]

@TVwriter23 Archeology as we know it, started in the Victorian era, and still has a Victoria perspective. The world was advanced much since then, but the framework from which ancient stuff is viewed, has not.

[StapleGunMS]

@TVwriter23 So we found a bunch of batteries but no artifacts which could be powered? Also, if they were so smart, why did they completely insulate the copper cell so that it couldn't generate a current anyway?

[svtcontour]

@StapleGunMS The copper is not completely insulated and was likely used for electroplating - not to power devices. Did you even research any of this or watch the video before responding the the guy's comment from a year ago?

[StapleGunMS]

@svtcontour No Baghdad battery found has ever been able to generate even the most infinitesimal amount current. And... it was completely insulated unless some of the insulation had worn away over time. Even in reconstructions of these alleged batteries it would take dozes of batteries in series to successfully electroplate, and no apparatus for this has ever been found. Did you even research this or are you just regurgitating the information from THIS video?

[svtcontour]

@StapleGunMS No there is plenty of information about the battery aside from this video. As far as I know, you dont need a lot of voltage for electroplating, but you do need some current so maybe they ran a few cells in parallel. I think you can even electroplate with 1v or less.

[StapleGunMS]

@svtcontour Indeed, it's entirely the current. If it weren't for V=IR then you wouldn't even need voltage, heh. But as I said, no material for connecting these in series has ever been found.

[dsa8]

/watch?v=ufFDVjbKx0o

it was part of this i think.

[Glimmerfading]

it is a ritual gathering of material? or something along those terms? that just happens to produce electricity with juice put in it?. history channel fail

[supafly1982]

@Glimmerfading agreed :)