Baghdad Battery
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The Baghdad Battery or Parthian Battery are the names given to an artifact consisting of a ceramic pot, a tube of copper, and a rod of iron fixed together with bitumen. It was discovered in present-da
Drawing of the three pieces
Coso artifact
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The Coso artifact is an object falsely claimed by its discoverers to be a spark plug encased in a geode. Discovered on February 13, 1961, by Wallace Lane, Virginia Maxey, and Mike Mikesell while they
Baghdad Battery
…first archaeological expedition in Iraq after 20 years, stated that she does not know a single archaeologist who believed that these were batteries. Coso artifact – Spark plug supposedly encased in a 500,000-year-old geode Dendera light – Motif in the Hathor temple in Egypt…
Coso artifact in 2018
An example of a 1920s Champion spark plug