Joe Rogan Experience #2563 - Dan Richards · Aired Oct 8, 2026
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The Baghdad battery was taken by an American intelligence agency in the early 2000s.
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The Baghdad battery did vanish in the early 2000s. Sources say the original jars disappeared when the Iraq National Museum was looted in April 2003. I found no reliable source saying a US intelligence agency took it, and the speaker himself said he was not sure which agency. A documented record of an American agency taking the jars would flip this verdict.
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Is it true that the Baghdad battery was taken by an American intelligence agency in the early 2000s?
Partly. The claim stretches what the evidence shows. The Baghdad battery did vanish in the early 2000s. Sources say the original jars disappeared when the Iraq National Museum was looted in April 2003. Dan Richards said it (matched by voice) on Joe Rogan Experience #2563 - Dan Richards, aired Oct 8, 2026, at 1:34:24. The supporting source is history.com, linked below.
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