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precedingly on Jimmy Egan's mysterious world.

Can this German scientist justify his astonishing claim that these relics are an electric battery invented long before the birth of Christ.

The remarkable thing is that these objects are 2,200 years old.

That means 2,200 years old.

That means 2,000 years before electricity

was invented in Europe in Italy.

The anti-Kithra computer and the Baghdad battery,

if indeed it is a Battery, represent two of the great ifs of history

because they are 2,000 years ahead of their time.

If the societies that produce them had continued to develop their technologies, by now

it would be 4,000 AD.

By this time, we would not merely have sent a few men to the moon.

We would have colonized all the stars visible to the naked eye. You're listening to episode 308 of Jimmy Aiken's mysterious world

where we look at mysteries from the twin perspectives of faith and reason.

In this episode, we're talking about the mystery of the Baghdad Battery.

I'm Dom Bethinelli and join me today is Jimmy Iken.

Hey Jimmy, how do Tom?

In the 1930s, a strange object came to public attention.

It was a small clay pot discovered near Baghdad, Iraq.

One of the first scholars to examine it became convinced that it was an electric battery despite

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