The so‑called Baghdad battery has long sat at the crossroads of science, archaeology, and speculation, its humble clay jar ...

A new study has delved into the debate about the use of an ancient artifact discovered in Iraq nearly a century ago but that ...

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Diaries and writings from ninth-century Baghdad provide a glimpse of the weird weather from the era, findings that could help researchers reconstruct past climate. The surviving documents were written ...

Thought to be around 2,000 years old, some believe the clay jar to be an ancient battery. If that is correct, a new study ...

Compared with the ancient Mesopotamian capital of Babylon 55 miles to the south, Baghdad is a new city. It appeared as a settlement next to the Tigris in pre-Islamic times, at least by 1800 B.C. But ...