Article 6QCQY Boy, four, who broke bronze age jar returns to museum in Israel

Boy, four, who broke bronze age jar returns to museum in Israel

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Sammy Gecsoyler and agency
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The family watched the rare 3,500-year-old jar, believed used for wine or oil, being restored at the Hecht Museum

Smashing a rare museum artefact dating back thousands of years would probably earn you a lifetime ban at the very least.

But a four-year-old who accidentally toppled a jar from the bronze age, leaving it broken into pieces, was welcomed back to the Hecht Museum in Haifa, Israel, a week after the unfortunate incident.

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