Articles for tag: ancient civilizations, Ancient Technology, lost technology, mysterious inventions, unsolved mysteries

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5 Ancient Technologies Modern Science Can’t Recreate

Suhail Ahmed

Some stories cling to the edge of evidence – half science, half smoke. Five ancient technologies sit there still, stubbornly resisting full modern replication. We can mimic the outcomes, sometimes even surpass them with new materials, yet the original recipes, rhythms, and tacit techniques remain partly invisible. That gap matters, not because the ancients were ...

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The Baghdad Battery: 2,000-Year-Old Tech or Misinterpreted Artifact?

Suhail Ahmed

In a museum storeroom nearly a century ago, a clay jar with a copper cylinder and an iron rod began whispering a rumor that refuses to fade: maybe electricity sparked in antiquity. The so‑called Baghdad Battery, unearthed near modern-day Baghdad in the 1930s and dated to the Parthian or early Sasanian era, has since lived ...