His recreation suggests that ancient people may have been harnessing electricity millennia earlier than we thought.

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.