From Canaan to chaos, a 4-year-old boy's curiosity cracks an ancient code, breaking a jar older than King David.
As the Hecht Museum doesn’t shield its precious artifacts from the past from damage or danger, a four-year-old accidentally broke a 3,500-year-old storage jar, which sent his parents into an anxiety spiral.
Upon speaking with a museum guard, Alex received confirmation that his young son had indeed broken the irreplaceable artifact from the unreachable past. However, it was the museum’s response that surprised everyone.The storage jar, stationed at the entrance, held much more than just olive oil and wine. Its history stretches back beyond King David and Solomon to a Biblical land known as Canaan. Out of all the objects the child could have damaged, he chose the rarest of them all.
Pulled from a tomb in Samaria, the jar stood 32 inches tall and had proudly graced the entrance since 1984. Speaking with the BBC, the boy’s father explained that his son “pulled the jar slightly” out of curiosity about what was inside., “I see my child next to the jar, and I’m in shock. The security guard is in shock, everyone is in shock, and the friends who were with us are also in shock. Afterward, we were a bit angry, then my wife pulled herself together and took the child aside to calm him down” as he was crying.
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