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Wow TIL, the ancient Egyptians knew how to harness hydrogen gas! /s
Supposedly the Egyptians did know how to make a simple battery. Mythbusters reproduced the battery and it produced around 4 volts. It only takes 1.5 volts to produce hydrogen gas from water via electrolysis. It's technically within the scientific capability of the Egyptians to do this, although I don't think it likely.
The "Baghdad Battery" is still so far fetched. There is also the huge issue of trapping that much hydrogen, since the atoms are so small.
It was not Egyptian and almost certainly not a battery.
Milo Rossi has covered this in detail in a very good video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRZR_TeVi5Y
He also has a follow-up to that video with an expert on the subject, an actual archaeologist who has studied the so-called battery.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19mhccQ3nVA
It's capable of being used as a battery. Doesn't mean it was.