The child's father says he thought 'please let that not be my child' after hearing a crash while touring artefacts in the Hecht Museum with his family.
A four-year-old boy who broke a Bronze Age jar has been invited back to the museum where the accident occurred.
Ariel's mother, Anna Geller, said she looked away for just a moment while the family was moving through the ancient artefacts on display at the museum before hearing a crash."It was just a distraction of a second," said Ms Geller, a mother of three from the northern Israeli town of Nahariya.
She said she wanted to use the restoration as an educational opportunity and to make sure the Gellers felt welcome to return. Ariel's parents say they were very embarrassed by the accident but that their son was a "very curious" child.Experts were using 3D technology and high-resolution videos to restore the jar, which could be back on display as soon as next week.
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