Was the Baghdad Battery Actually a Battery?: An Archaeologist Demystifies the 2,000-Year-Old Artifact

Image by Ironie, via Wiki­me­dia Com­mons The aver­age Open Cul­ture read­er may well be aware that there is such a thing as Archae­ol­o­gy YouTube. What could come as more of a sur­prise is how much back-and-forth there is with­in that world. Below, we have a video from the chan­nel Arti­fac­tu­al­ly Speak­ing in which Brad Haf­ford, … Con­tin­ue read­ing Was the Bagh­dad Bat­tery Actu­al­ly a Bat­tery?: An Archae­ol­o­gist Demys­ti­fies the 2,000-Year-Old Arti­fact