3500 Year Old Jar: A 4-year-old child, who had come to visit a museum with his parents in the northern coastal city of Haifa, broke a 3,500-year-old jar. The child tried to peek inside the jar to find out what was in it. A statement issued by the museum said that the thing fell from the metal stand at the museum’s entry gate and broke.
The Hecht Museum typically displays its priceless archaeological finds without any security cover, the New York Times reports. The museum said there is “a special charm” in experiencing historical objects this way, as visitors can get almost as close to the artifacts as the people who handled them in ancient times.
This jar was even older than King Solomon’s era
The museum said the view was consistent with that of the institution’s founder, Dr. Reuben Hecht. The child’s father told the BBC: “His child pulled the jar slightly and it fell over.” The jar dates to between 2200 and 1500 BC, which is before the era of King David and his son and successor King Solomon. The museum said its features matched those of similar objects from ancient Canaan, a region that now includes parts of Israel and the Palestinian territories.
What was special about this jar?
“Similar jars have been found in archaeological excavations, but most were found broken or incomplete,” museum director general Dr. Inbal Rivlin said in an emailed statement Wednesday. “However, the jar on display at the Hecht Museum was intact and its size makes it an impressive find placed at the museum’s entrance.”
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