A Baghdad battery is not a brand of car battery you can grab off the shelf at your local auto parts store, but the story surrounding these so-called bygone "batteries" is as perplexing as trying ...

Exploring the Baghdad Battery’s archaeological context. The Baghdad Battery was discovered in 1936 at Khujut Rabu, near Baghdad, Iraq, not far from the historical metropolis of Ctesiphon, the ...

The Baghdad Battery, made sometime between 150 BC and 650 AD in present-day Iraq, was confirmed to carry charge on the Discovery show Mythbusters and by Smith College.