The reading states that it is implausible people employed vessels as electric batteries in ancient times. The lecturer, on other hand, challenges the statements made by the author and refutes them all by specific details.

The reading states that it is implausible people employed vessels as electric batteries in ancient times. The lecturer, on other hand, challenges the statements made by the author and refutes them all by specific details. First, the author mentions that had vessel operated as batteries, archaeologists would have found some wires near or on the vessel. Conversely, the professor underlines the fact that local people, who first discovered the vessel, did not have archaeology knowledge. As a result, had local people found wires, they would not have had recognized their importance, and they may have thrown them away, or only they may not have searched for them. Furthermore, the reading states that the ancient people used copper cylinders inside the jars for holding scrolls of sacred texts. Since archaeologists had excavated similar copper cylinders in a nearby ancient city, Seleucia, those copper cylinders were employed to hold sacred texts. The lecturer, on the other hand, explains that ancient people may have discovered, if they bring together copper, iron rods, and liquid in clay jars, it will generate electricity. It seems that the copper cylinders originally were used for holding scrolls of sacred texts, but over time, ancient people may have adopted them for other purposes. Finally, the writer contends that had ancient people generated electricity, they would not have had devices that relied on electricity. In other words, they could not take advantage of vessels as batteries. The lecturer, however, rebuts this by asserting that as batteries, not only would have vessel made mild shock, to represent that user has magic power also ancient doctors may have used electricity for healing, such as stimulating muscles.