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Either the subject of reading or lecture is pointing to the fact whether the ancient vessels which were found in Iraq had been used as archaic electric batteries. In this case, the article alleges the vessels were not potentially a desirable device for generating an electric current. However, the lecture casts a shadow of doubt on the proposed idea in which it has been predominately disapproved by the same source.

First and for most, the lecture brings up the fact that the vessels were found by indigenous people who did not have archaeological knowledge. Therefore, they might find some metal wires and did not recognize them as compelling evidence. They discarded the metal wires because they were uninterested in them. As a result, some electricity devices would be found by a meticulous discovery as a solid evidence of being ancient electric batteries. Nonetheless, the passage states no electricity conductors were found for proving the ancient electric batteries.

Based on the article, the second critical fact is that the copper cylinders are similar to discovered cylinders which were used for storing scrolls. On the contrary, the speaker challenges this claims by stating that there are some similarities but ancient people may gather the cylinders together for producing electricity. Hence, the primary ancient electric battery was invented by these people.

Finally, the lecture contends that ancient people used the vessels for other purposes. The vessels caused a shock when someone touched them. Probably, they used the electricity as invisible power for healing muscles and so on. As a result, the vessels as batteries could not be bootless and ancient doctors applied them for their treatments. This entirely contradicts with what the reading indicates that the vessels have no any acceptable usages.