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Iraq: Baghdad's Ancient Battery

Written byHaitham Sabbah
Posted 17 October 2005 11:00 GMT

A Free Writer says that while excavating ruins of a 2000-year-old village near Baghdad, workers discovered mysterious small vase. German archaeologist ,Wilhelm Konig, examined the object and came to a surprising conclusion that the clay pot was nothing less than an ancient electric battery.

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