Iraq dug up a broken jar, causing a sensation in the archaeological community, experts: Chinese history may have to be rewritten
introduction
The General History of the World states: "Geological time is measured in billions of years, and prehistory of mankind is measured in millennia. "As we all know, the earth is 4.6 billion years old, and people often wonder if there is only one human civilization in such a long history? Is it possible that human civilization is actually repeating a cycle from origin to extinction?
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Scholars around the world occasionally find incredible artifacts in their archaeological work, which are full of mysterious modernity, and at first glance appear to be completely the product of modern technology, and it is hard to believe that they were made by humans in prehistoric times. Among the various well-known artifacts of prehistoric civilizations, some have actually been debunked as hoaxes, such as the famous Mayan crystal skeleton. But there are still some real things that cannot be explained for the time being, such as the Baghdad battery found in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq.
In June 1936, a group of construction workers were building a railroad on the outskirts of Baghdad when a huge ancient Persian tomb was accidentally discovered during construction. There is also a huge sarcophagus in this tomb, which has been studied in detail by archaeologists, and a large number of artifacts from 248 to 226 BC have been found in it, which is of great significance for the study of Iraqi history. Among the excavated artifacts are a large number of gold and silver objects and very valuable pearls, but it is not these rare treasures that attract the attention of archaeologists the most, but a clay pot, some copper pipes and iron rods.
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Why can these inconspicuous things be used as funerary objects together with precious gold and silver jewelry? Cultural relics workers have carried out further research on this. The clay pot is about 15 centimeters tall and looks like a vase from the outside. However, the inside of the pot was filled with asphalt, and a copper pipe with a layer of asphalt on the inside was buried in the pot. There is also an iron rod in the copper pipe, which is about a centimeter longer than the copper pipe, and the lower end of the iron rod is isolated from the copper pipe by asphalt.
What is such a strange thing? After careful study, the experts came up with an answer that left everyone stunned - they believed that it was a prehistoric chemical battery. If this speculation can be confirmed, it means that as early as the second or third hundred years BC, the ancient Persians had mastered the technology of using batteries. This is undoubtedly a huge subversion in the history of human civilization, so can such a "battery" really produce electricity?
Waliharam Kavinig was the director of the Iraqi Museum at the time, and after a detailed analysis and experimentation of these things, Kavinig announced his speculation. First of all, he determined that these were indeed chemical cells, and that these chemical cells could be used in series, and that they were used for the purpose of electrolytic gold plating. Another scholar suggests that it is likely that ancient Babylonian doctors invented the battery and used it as a local anesthetic.
These two speculations have certainly caused a great stir, but these are only speculations and further archaeological research is needed before they can be conclusively confirmed. Experts say that if it is finally confirmed that this battery is used as anesthetic, then it means that the previous record of the first use of anesthetic in Chinese history books will be rewritten.
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It is recorded in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty: The Biography of Hua Tuo: "...... ......"Although Hua Tuo's hemp boiling powder has now been lost, this is the earliest record of anesthetics in the world, about 1600 years earlier than the appearance of Western anesthetics. If the use of Baghdad batteries as anesthesia is confirmed, it means that the use of drugs or other means of anesthesia by humans has been around since prehistoric times, which is undoubtedly very shocking.
However, Kavinig's speculation is not without flaws, because the current generated by the Baghdad battery would not have been able to complete the recording work if it had not been used in series, and so far there has been no trace of the Baghdad battery being used in series.
In fact, when scientists were inspecting the pyramids, they once found figures similar to Baghdad batteries on the murals in the caverns, and there was no light revealed in the deepest caves of the pyramids. If you want to carve a mural here, you have to have light, but there is no trace of fire in the cave. Connecting these clues, was it possible that in ancient Egypt, there were also people who used devices similar to Baghdad batteries to generate electricity for lighting?
epilogue
This question has remained a mystery to this day, but it is believed that with the advancement of science and technology and the emergence of more archaeological evidence, some puzzles will eventually be answered. Although the true role of the Baghdad battery has not yet been finalized, historians and archaeologists continue to study at the same time, and perhaps one day the real answer will be obtained.