The Parthian Battery or Baghdad Battery is one of the most fascinating inventions of the ancient world preceding the ...

Diaries and writings from ninth-century Baghdad provide a glimpse of the weird weather from the era, findings that could help researchers reconstruct past climate. The surviving documents were written ...

In an intriguing new study published by Chemistry World, scientists have revisited the enigmatic Baghdad battery, a 2,000-year-old artifact that may have been used as an ancient form of a battery.

Compared with the ancient Mesopotamian capital of Babylon 55 miles to the south, Baghdad is a new city. It appeared as a settlement next to the Tigris in pre-Islamic times, at least by 1800 B.C. But ...