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 ...

For decades, the so-called Baghdad Battery has been a curiosity, dismissed by many as nothing more than an ancient artifact that might’ve had a purpose far removed from the electrical world. But, ...