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Baghdad Battery

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Oct 21, 2026

DaveHOST
109:00
You know how they were talking about Jesus coming back? They think that this is what the guy, when Jesus comes back, they think it's going to look like this guy.
speaker_50UNKNOWN
109:08
You know where the Baghdad Battery is right now, don't you? Where? Nobody knows.
speaker_50UNKNOWN
109:12
It was grabbed by Alphabet Boys at the beginning of the 2000s.
speaker_50UNKNOWN
109:15
Which Alphabet Boys? Ours.
Steve StocktonHOST
133:37
And here's the bitter, chilling end to this tale.
Steve StocktonHOST
133:40
You see, the Baghdad Battery survived the rise and fall of empires.
Steve StocktonHOST
133:44
It survived the crushing weight of the earth for two thousand years.
Steve StocktonHOST
133:48
It survived the harsh glare of modern science.
Steve StocktonHOST
133:58
But in 2003, during the chaos and fire of the invasion of Baghdad, the museum was looted.
Steve StocktonHOST
134:04
Thieves broke through the glass and vanished into the night, carrying thousands of artifacts with them.
Steve StocktonHOST
134:09
The Baghdad battery was taken, swallowed back up by the shadows, gone without a trace.
Steve StocktonHOST
134:16
Maybe it was just melted down for scrap by a thief who didn't know what he had.
Jorge PabonGUEST
3:36
And I know many scholars, Christopher Dunn and others, have looked at the idea of how Giza and these three pyramids are harnessing energy in some way.
Jorge PabonGUEST
3:45
Well, the Baghdad Battery, again, is well-known in mainstream science.
Jorge PabonGUEST
3:49
very interesting depiction of it is that, you know, it was used to electroplate jewelry.
Jorge PabonGUEST
3:55
And another thing that they theorize it was used for was, you know, back thousands of years ago, there were ancient churches would always be competing.
Jorge PabonGUEST
4:03
All right.
Jorge PabonGUEST
4:03
And so sometimes they would use the Baghdad battery and connect it to a statue and create a large static buildup so that you'd walk in.
Jorge PabonGUEST
4:11
And if you touched the statue, you'd get it.
Jorge PabonGUEST
4:14
You'd get it.
Steve StocktonHOST
309:58
And here's the bitter, chilling end to this tale.
Steve StocktonHOST
310:01
You see, the Baghdad Battery survived the rise and fall of empires.
Steve StocktonHOST
310:06
It survived the crushing weight of the earth for two thousand years.
Steve StocktonHOST
310:09
It survived the harsh glare of modern science.
Steve StocktonHOST
310:19
But in two thousand three, during the chaos and fire of the invasion of Baghdad, the museum was looted.
Steve StocktonHOST
310:26
Thieves broke through the glass and vanished into the night, carrying thousands of artifacts with them.
Steve StocktonHOST
310:30
The Baghdad Battery was taken, swallowed back up by the shadows, gone without a trace.
Steve StocktonHOST
310:37
Maybe it was just melted down for scrap by a thief who didn't know what he had.
Jason MartellGUEST
9:19
I, I made it [clears throat] for two purposes.
Jason MartellGUEST
9:21
The first purpose is simply that, um, the mon- the mainstream view of the Baghdad Battery is that, you know, they've s- discovered about 12 of them so far in, in the, uh, Middle East area, mostly in Iraq.
Jason MartellGUEST
9:35
And it's a, it's a clay pot.
Jason MartellGUEST
9:37
It's about four to six inches tall, um, two to three or four inches in diameter.
Jason MartellGUEST
9:44
And what you would do is, is if you, if you fill it with any weak acidic acid, grape juice, vinegar, wine, um, it's got a copper rod, uh, or excuse me, a copper lining, and a little iron rod that when you mix a, an acidic acid with this copper and iron, they will create an abundance of electrolytes, and you can literally create an electrical current.
Jason MartellGUEST
10:08
So mainstream science acknowledges that it was a battery, but they only give two hypothetical theories for what it was being used for, which in their own right are still kinda cool.
Jason MartellGUEST
10:19
First one was they would, ancient man would use the Baghdad Battery to heat up, let's say, gold or silver.
Jason MartellGUEST
10:27
You know, passing this electrical current that it would generate into a little pool of gold or silver so that they could spray it over an amulet or a necklace to, uh, coat it with gold or silver.
Carmen BoulterGUEST
30:09
And they've got beautiful carvings inside.
Carmen BoulterGUEST
30:12
So there's things like the Baghdad Battery that works now.
Carmen BoulterGUEST
30:16
If you find a relic and you do what they did, it makes a low grade of energy.
Carmen BoulterGUEST
30:20
And so they were harnessing microwaves.
Joe RoganHOST
102:58
He's like, "I don't trust any of you motherfuckers."
Dan RichardsGUEST
103:00
Hell, you know where the Baghdad Battery is right now, don't you?
Joe RoganHOST
103:03
Where?
Dan RichardsGUEST
103:04
Nobody knows.
Joe RoganHOST
103:20
Right.
Dan RichardsGUEST
103:21
Uh, but I...
Dan RichardsGUEST
103:22
Speaking of the Baghdad Battery, I got a, a cool little theory on that.
Dan RichardsGUEST
103:25
I don't know if you've ever seen that, but, uh, I don't think it was for electricity.
HudsonHOST
48:31
Yeah.
SethHOST
48:32
Look up the Baghdad Battery.
SethHOST
48:34
But what if they were more advanced in a different way? Like, it brings to mind the movie Stargate.
SethHOST
48:41
I don't know if you ever saw the original.

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The Age of Invisible Civilizations: Did We Miss Earlier Cultures? | History for Sleep

Oct 7 · 3 Mentions

speaker_0NARRATOR
56:39
Objects that make archeologists uncomfortable, things that whisper about knowledge we supposedly didn't have yet.
speaker_0NARRATOR
56:45
The Baghdad Battery is a good place to start.
speaker_0NARRATOR
56:48
Discovered in 1936 in a Parthian settlement near modern-day Baghdad, it's a clay jar about five inches tall.
speaker_0NARRATOR
56:55
Inside, a copper cylinder surrounds an iron rod.
speaker_0NARRATOR
58:04
Dry climates, protective burials, lucky accidents.
speaker_0NARRATOR
58:08
For every object we find, thousands more have rotted, rusted, or been melted down for scrap.
speaker_0NARRATOR
58:14
What if the Baghdad Battery isn't anomalous because it's unique, but because it's the only one that survived? But batteries are one thing.
speaker_0NARRATOR
58:21
Stone is another.
MiriamNARRATOR
12:29
Enough to electroplate metal maybe, but hardly the shower of sparks and flames the Bible describes.
MiriamNARRATOR
12:36
The Baghdad Battery, as it became known, was dated to 250 BC.
MiriamNARRATOR
12:40
No one has ever found any electrical devices or batteries dating back to the time of Moses, a thousand years earlier.
MiriamNARRATOR
12:50
I'm heading to the Temple of Hathor in Dendera.

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