# What kind of achievements were accomplished without the person realizing its difficulty/importance?

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> [@Malthus](#):
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> Certainly. I have doubts myself. One point in favour of the battery explaination is that several similar artifacts have been found.

It also looks like other artifacts that were used to store scrolls. Last I heard none of the ‘batteries’ found had any conductors with which to tap the tiny potential they are speculated to have had.

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