The idea of ancient Egyptians using electricity is so widespread that I could not ascertain who came up with it first. The depiction (image 2) of how this may have looked is on so many websites that I do not know to whom the image must be credited. And the photo (image 1) is well known to be authentic from the Temple of Dendara.

There are all sorts of ‘tin-hat’ ideas about ‘pyramid-power’; but all I am simply suggesting is that primitive batteries would have been placed inside the pyramid and then charged at the next lightning-strike. So it was a fairly crude process that would have used some sort of direct-current electricity, and was likely very inefficient. Probably this process followed its own evolution, and thus there were variations on the theme, as there are variations and even alterations to the internal structures of the pyramids. The electric lighting itself was probably only used for ‘special’ purposes by the elite. There is no evidence that the use was widespread at all, so it makes no sense to reach such a conclusion empirically, or logically. The ‘Baghdad battery’ is additional proof that the ancients had dabbled with electricity to a limited extent.

Image 3 is of a ‘crookes tube’ and is so amazingly similar to the Dendara image that you would have to be seriously narrow-minded to the point of neurotic to deny it. (Sources at end of this web-page).

Image 4 is fairly rare, and there is no description as to where it originates from, so I cannot attest to its authenticity, but it seems quite real, and is very much in keeping with this hypothesis and the previous carvings from Dendara.

I have not figured out just what type of battery they may have used, and what type of device may optimally be charged by a lightning strike. It being inductively clear that something must be able to retain a miniscule part of the charge of a lightning bolt. The shafts after all contain copper ‘handles’, or the remains of something larger. Obviously the vast bulk of a pyramid can endure numerous strikes, and their large size also attracts lightning more effectively than any other shape

Tesla surmised that the pyramids could be used for ‘zero-point energy’. A mysterious and dubious idea which, for the record, I do not agree can work at all. I reckon zero-point energy was disproved with the understanding of quantum energy from Planck. The ‘ultraviolet catastrophe’ and how that error was made by Rayleigh, and then resolved by Planck is dealt with in the section: Zeno and Planck.

Trapping lightning into batteries would have been of immense esoteric political power, and thus would have been a closely guarded secret. This mysterious ‘Godly’ power would easily be used to keep the common populace in a state of intellectual submission. All sorts of superstitious myths could be claimed by anyone wielding such ‘magic’. This type of behavior is a typical practice of ruling classes, right up to this day. It is only since Christian times that the concept of ‘magic’ or ‘esoteric wizardry’ (secret knowledge) has been seen as taboo. Not that I reckon all who use the title ‘Christian’ adhere to the clearly worthwhile ethic of freedom of information.