Electric Lights in Ancient Egypt?!?

Egypt home of the pyramids, golden statues, and mummies...

Turns out the hot and sandy deserts of Egypt hold more secrets than walking undead...

Look closely at this wall painting found in the Hathor temple at the Dendera Temple complex:

The object you see the Egyptian holding is known as the "Dendera Light"

"It's a technology of electrical lighting supposedly in existence in ancient Egypt" -Wikipedia

The idea that this object is a light bulb was proposed by some fringe authors and is not commonly excepted as an actual object. Instead Egyptologists explain the reliefs as a typical set of symbolic images from Egyptian mythology...but some new discoveries prove otherwise...  

You know how in all the movies it shows some young explorer equipped with a torch exploring the dark underground hallways of burials deep under the hot sands of Egypt? Have you ever noticed how there is always a torch fitted on the wall ready for use? 

Well the fact is that in real life there are no torches fitted onto the walls....in fact no tomb found today in Egypt contains residue of soot or other evidence of torch use to light the tomb...so how did the Egyptians see to carve and paint the walls?

Well even if such a device existed in ancient Egypt, how would the ancient Egyptians power it? I mean it's not like they had electricity or anything...or did they? 

The device shown up above is called a "Baghdad Battery". 

It's a battery, just like the one inside your flashlight.

This device was created more than a millennium before Alessandro Volta's 1800 invention of the electrochemical cell. 

At first no one really knew what these pot shaped things were, until someone decided to cut one open. 

Inside the found the same type of setup as a simple battery, housing a rolled up copper sheet, an iron rod, and some sort of wine/lemon juice/vinegar used as an acidic electrolyte solution to generate an electric current from the difference between the electrochemical potentials of the copper and iron electrodes. 

In the end you can still argue whether or not such a device existed in ancient Egypt.

But the fact that an actual object has been found and I can wave it in front of your face does put a little damper on your argument that the Egyptians had no access to electricity.