A 2000 Year-Old Battery?

If this article is correct, it appears that electrical cells capable of electroplating silver on to other metals have been around for 2500 years. I am astonished that this discovery is not commonplace knowledge. I regarded the ancient Egyptians as farmers, fisherman and superb builders, but not as scientists who beat Alessandro Volta to the electrical cell

In 1970s, German Egyptologist, Arne Eggebrecht built a replica of the Baghdad battery and filled it with freshly pressed grape juice, as he speculated the

ancients might have done. The replica generated 0.87V. He used current from the battery to electroplate a silver statuette with gold.

 

This experiment proved that electric batteries were used some 1,800 years before their modern invention by Alessandro Volta in 1799.

It also seems that the use of similar batteries can be safely placed into ancient Egypt, where several objects with traces of electroplated precious metals have been found at different locations. There are several anomalous finds from other regions, which suggests use of electricity on a grander scale.

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