The child, who had been visiting the Hecht Museum in Haifa, wanted to know what was in the jar, his father said. He and his family have been invited to return when the artifact is restored.

The boy's father said he could not initially believe what he was seeing after the jar smashed Credit: X A four-year-old boy accidentally smashed a 3,500-year-old jar into pieces during a trip to a ...

A curious 4-year-old boy managed to break a 3,500-year-old jar at a museum in Israel last week, prompting the museum to contact an expert who can restore the artifact. The incident happened Friday ...

A young boy accidentally smashed a 3,500-year-old jar at the Hecht Museum in Israel. The jar, dating back to the Bronze Age, was displayed without glass barriers. The museum will not punish the ...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A rare Bronze-Era jar accidentally smashed by a 4-year-old visiting a museum was back on display Wednesday after restoration experts were able to carefully piece the ...

Then a crash sounded, a rare 3,500-year-old jar was broken on the ground, and her son stood over it, aghast. “It was just a distraction of a second,” said Geller, a mother of three from the ...

A young child accidentally broke a centuries-old jar while visiting the Hecht Museum at the University of Haifa in Israel, museum officials said Wednesday. The jar is at least 3,500 years old ...

A 3,500-year-old jar has been accidentally smashed into pieces by a four-year-old boy during a trip to a museum in Israel. The Hecht Museum in Haifa told the BBC the crockery dated back to the ...

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But the jar was real. It dates to between 2200 and 1500 B.C.E., and it would have been used to store and transport substances like wine and olive oil. “Similar jars have been found in ...

The museum reacted with understanding, welcoming the family to return any time. A 4-year-old boy accidentally smashed a Bronze Age jar during a visit to a museum in Israel on Friday, the museum said.