The bronze-era jar broken by a four-year-old child at the museum in Haifa, Israel Associated Press/Photo by Hecht Museum staff
NICK EICHER, HOST: A museum at Israel’s Haifa University keeps some historical artifacts behind glass, just not all of them.
Some they keep out in the open for a closer look.
Sometimes, though, too close.
AUDIO: Ohhhhhhh …
A four year old by the name of Ariel Geller put his hands on an ancient vase predating Kings David and Solomon, and you know what happened.
This is his mom talking to the BBC.
AUDIO: And the next thing I know it’s a very big ba-boom.
Well, not that big, but it didn’t need to be to break an artifact 35-hundred years old.
AUDIO: Of course it’s my fault. But it was just the destruction of a second!
That’s all it takes!
But no hard feelings, the museum says the vase can be restored and invited the family back for a tour.
… a guided tour this time.
It’s The World and Everything in It.
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