- The War in Iraq has resulted in the looting of the Baghdad
batteries. It is time to discuss what these were used for. The biggest
problems in those days in this region were how to survive either volcanoes
or the environment caused by the tectonic plate shifts that ran through
the Middle East. One other problem was the health effects from mining.
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- The Gold mining using mercury caused many persons to
be poisoned and the way they treated this was with ingestion of gold. The
preparation that worked the best was the finest particles possible--colloids.
The Gold particles wicked mercury and fluorides from the body. We know
today this works by a G-protein process.
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- Just several batteries connected in series could make
lots of colloidal Gold. This special gold pharmacy appears to have originated
with the Egyptians and their greed for Gold. It was a part of their God
of ISIS and how rulers came to power and ruled. Later, it became a part
of how the Jews survived Mt. Sinai and the legend of the Golden Calf. This
became the Jewish God of Moses and the Covenant of the Ark. The Ark's secrets
could be used as weapons and for healing.
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 These batteries were part of that type
pharmacy and made the special purple gold colloid that became known as
Manna and was a part of the Secrets for the Ark of the Covenant.
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- Today, these batteries are likely in the hands of one
of the Bush Bonesmen as a trophy. This group is desperate to hide the issues
of the Ark being discovered, so the batteries were looted, and the pathway
markers for Exodus set by King Solomon have been hidden, and the actual
site of the Mt. Sinai volcano is placed off limits by the Saudi King, who
is a great buddies with the Bushes.
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- The colloid process was used as the prime model for the
colloid particle suspensions in the atmosphere that cause the problems
with UV b levels rising from the HF lofted into the ozone regions.
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- The colloid process is also part of the equations for
how the fine particles emitted from the jet engines suspend in air for
on the order of a day. The aluminum drifts down very slowly and tends to
form alum from the heated sulfuric acids in the jet heat plume. The titanium
colloids drift down and setting on plants to protect animals from the effects
of HF. This is a direct spin off of the purple gold techniques from the
5,000 year old Egyptian gold pharmacy techniques.
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- This old pharmacology is so effective at treating illnesses
that it is a direct threat to the existence of current pharmacy methods
and the AMA. This is how the Bush Mafia and their pharmacy holdings get
into the play of things. Its now about Racketeering and ill gotten gains,
by failing for report these simple truths.
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- See article below and how easily the Manna and purple
gold fits the use for the batteries.
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- Jim Phelps
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- Note - The following BBC story appeared before Bush's
war and the looting of Iraq's antiquities
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- Riddle Of 'Baghdad's Batteries'
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- BBC News
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- Arran Frood investigates what could have been the very
first batteries and how these important archaeological and technological
artefacts are now at risk from the impending war in Iraq.
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- "I don't think anyone can say for sure what they
were used for, but they may have been batteries because they do work..."
-- Dr Marjorie Senechal
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- War can destroy more than a people, an army or a leader.
Culture, tradition and history also lie in the firing line.
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- Iraq has a rich national heritage. The Garden of Eden
and the Tower of Babel are said to have been sited in this ancient land.
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- In any war, there is a chance that priceless treasures
will be lost forever, articles such as the "ancient battery"
that resides defenceless in the museum of Baghdad.
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- For this object suggests that the region, whose civilizations
gave us writing and the wheel, may also have invented electric cells -
two thousand years before such devices were well known.
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- Biblical clues
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- It was in 1938, while working in Khujut Rabu, just outside
Baghdad in modern day Iraq, that German archaeologist Wilhelm Konig unearthed
a five-inch-long (13 cm) clay jar containing a copper cylinder that encased
an iron rod.
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 The vessel showed signs of corrosion,
and early tests revealed that an acidic agent, such as vinegar or wine
had been present.
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- In the early 1900s, many European archaeologists were
excavating ancient Mesopotamian sites, looking for evidence of Biblical
tales like the Tree of Knowledge and Noah's flood.
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- Konig did not waste his time finding alternative explanations
for his discovery. To him, it had to have been a battery.
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- Though this was hard to explain, and did not sit comfortably
with the religious ideology of the time, he published his conclusions.
But soon the world was at war, and his discovery was forgotten.
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- Scientific awareness
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- More than 60 years after their discovery, the batteries
of Baghdad - as there are perhaps a dozen of them - are shrouded in myth.
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- "The batteries have always attracted interest as
curios," says Dr Paul Craddock, a metallurgy expert of the ancient
Near East from the British Museum.
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- "They are a one-off. As far as we know, nobody else
has found anything like these. They are odd things; they are one of life's
enigmas."
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- No two accounts of them are the same. Some say the batteries
were excavated, others that Konig found them in the basement of the Baghdad
Museum when he took over as director. There is no definite figure on how
many have been found, and their age is disputed.
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- Most sources date the batteries to around 200 BC - in
the Parthian era, circa 250 BC to AD 225. Skilled warriors, the Parthians
were not noted for their scientific achievements.
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- "Although this collection of objects is usually
dated as Parthian, the grounds for this are unclear," says Dr St John
Simpson, also from the department of the ancient Near East at the British
Museum.
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- "The pot itself is Sassanian. This discrepancy presumably
lies either in a misidentification of the age of the ceramic vessel, or
the site at which they were found."
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- Underlying principles
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- In the history of the Middle East, the Sassanian period
(circa AD 225 - 640) marks the end of the ancient and the beginning of
the more scientific medieval era.
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- Though most archaeologists agree the devices were batteries,
there is much conjecture as to how they could have been discovered, and
what they were used for.
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- How could ancient Persian science have grasped the principles
of electricity and arrived at this knowledge?
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- Perhaps they did not. Many inventions are conceived before
the underlying principles are properly understood.
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- The Chinese invented gunpowder long before the principles
of combustion were deduced, and the rediscovery of old herbal medicines
is now a common occurrence.
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- You do not always have to understand why something works
- just that it does.
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- Enough zap
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- It is certain the Baghdad batteries could conduct an
electric current because many replicas have been made, including by students
of ancient history under the direction of Dr Marjorie Senechal, professor
of the history of science and technology, Smith College, US.
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- "I don't think anyone can say for sure what they
were used for, but they may have been batteries because they do work,"
she says. Replicas can produce voltages from 0.8 to nearly two volts.
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- Making an electric current requires two metals with different
electro potentials and an ion carrying solution, known as an electrolyte,
to ferry the electrons between them.
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- Connected in series, a set of batteries could theoretically
produce a much higher voltage, though no wires have ever been found that
would prove this had been the case.
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- "It's a pity we have not found any wires,"
says Dr Craddock. "It means our interpretation of them could be completely
wrong."
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- But he is sure the objects are batteries and that there
could be more of them to discover. "Other examples may exist that
lie in museums elsewhere unrecognised".
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- He says this is especially possible if any items are
missing, as the objects only look like batteries when all the pieces are
in place.
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- Possible uses
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- Some have suggested the batteries may have been used
medicinally.
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- The ancient Greeks wrote of the pain killing effect of
electric fish when applied to the soles of the feet.
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- The Chinese had developed acupuncture by this time, and
still use acupuncture combined with an electric current. This may explain
the presence of needle-like objects found with some of the batteries.
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- But this tiny voltage would surely have been ineffective
against real pain, considering the well-recorded use of other painkillers
in the ancient world like cannabis, opium and wine.
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- Other scientists believe the batteries were used for
electroplating - transferring a thin layer of metal on to another metal
surface - a technique still used today and a common classroom experiment.
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- This idea is appealing because at its core lies the mother
of many inventions: money.
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- In the making of jewellery, for example, a layer of gold
or silver is often applied to enhance its beauty in a process called gilding.
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- Grape electrolyte
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- Two main techniques of gilding were used at the time
and are still in use today: hammering the precious metal into thin strips
using brute force, or mixing it with a mercury base which is then pasted
over the article.
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- These techniques are effective, but wasteful compared
with the addition of a small but consistent layer of metal by electro-deposition.
The ability to mysteriously electroplate gold or silver on to such objects
would not only save precious resources and money, but could also win you
important friends at court.
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- Let's hope the world manages to resolve its present problems
so people can go and see them
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- Dr Paul Craddock A palace, kingdom, or even the sultan's
daughter may have been the reward for such knowledge - and motivation to
keep it secret.
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- Testing this idea in the late seventies, Dr Arne Eggebrecht,
then director of Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum in Hildesheim, connected many
replica Baghdad batteries together using grape juice as an electrolyte,
and claimed to have deposited a thin layer of silver on to another surface,
just one ten thousandth of a millimetre thick.
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- Other researchers though, have disputed these results
and have been unable to replicate them.
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- "There does not exist any written documentation
of the experiments which took place here in 1978," says Dr Bettina
Schmitz, currently a researcher based at the same Roemer and Pelizaeus
Museum.
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- "The experiments weren't even documented by photos,
which really is a pity," she says. "I have searched through the
archives of this museum and I talked to everyone involved in 1978 with
no results."
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- Tingling idols
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- Although a larger voltage can be obtained by connecting
more than one battery together, it is the ampage which is the real limiting
factor, and many doubt whether a high enough power could ever have been
obtained, even from tens of Baghdad batteries.
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- One serious flaw with the electroplating hypothesis is
the lack of items from this place and time that have been treated in this
way.
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- "The examples we see from this region and era are
conventional gild plating and mercury gilding," says Dr Craddock.
"There's never been any untouchable evidence to support the electroplating
theory."
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- He suggests a cluster of the batteries, connected in
parallel, may have been hidden inside a metal statue or idol.
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- He thinks that anyone touching this statue may have received
a tiny but noticeable electric shock, something akin to the static discharge
that can infect offices, equipment and children's parties.
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- "I have always suspected you would get tricks done
in the temple," says Dr Craddock. "The statue of a god could
be wired up and then the priest would ask you questions.
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- "If you gave the wrong answer, you'd touch the statue
and would get a minor shock along with perhaps a small mysterious blue
flash of light. Get the answer right, and the trickster or priest could
disconnect the batteries and no shock would arrive - the person would then
be convinced of the power of the statue, priest and the religion."
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- Magical rituals
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- It is said that to the uninitiated, science cannot be
distinguished from magic. "In Egypt we know this sort of thing happened
with Hero's engine," Dr Craddock says.
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- Hero's engine was a primitive steam-driven machine, and
like the battery of Baghdad, no one is quite sure what it was used for,
but are convinced it could work.
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- If this idol could be found, it would be strong evidence
to support the new theory. With the batteries inside, was this object once
revered, like the Oracle of Delphi in Greece, and "charged" with
godly powers?
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- Even if the current were insufficient to provide a genuine
shock, it may have felt warm, a bizarre tingle to the touch of the unsuspecting
finger.
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- At the very least, it could have just been the container
of these articles, to keep their secret safe.
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- Perhaps it is too early to say the battery has been convincingly
demonstrated to be part of a magical ritual. Further examination, including
accurate dating, of the batteries' components are needed to really answer
this mystery.
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- No one knows if such an idol or statue that could have
hidden the batteries really exists, but perhaps the opportunity to look
is not too far away - if the items survive the looming war in the Middle
East.
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- "These objects belong to the successors of the people
who made them," says Dr Craddock. "Let's hope the world manages
to resolve its present problems so people can go and see them."
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- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2804257.stm
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- http://members.aol.com/magnu96196/chemtrails.html
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