This thing is very interesting, but I am not convinced that, even if it did actually purposefully generate electricity, it was anything more than a mildly notable footnote in the history of Egyptian engineering. We don’t have any significant indication that the Egyptians had use for electrical power on any relevant scale.
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Have you seen Babylon in Iraq? It’s crazy. The prophecies from the Bible still hold today. Nobody lives inside the city and its inhabitants are wolves owls and jackals.
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These weren’t batteries. They were religious texts kept in copper sheaths and stored in reused amphora. After the first one was discovered and this battery idea was created others have been found with the texts intact in the copper scrolls.
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This thing is very interesting, but I am not convinced that, even if it did actually purposefully generate electricity, it was anything more than a mildly notable footnote in the history of Egyptian engineering. We don’t have any significant indication that the Egyptians had use for electrical power on any relevant scale.
Have you seen Babylon in Iraq? It’s crazy. The prophecies from the Bible still hold today. Nobody lives inside the city and its inhabitants are wolves owls and jackals.
These weren’t batteries. They were religious texts kept in copper sheaths and stored in reused amphora. After the first one was discovered and this battery idea was created others have been found with the texts intact in the copper scrolls.