"Curious" 4-year-old accidentally breaks a 3,500-year-old jar at a museum

A young child accidentally broke a centuries-old jar while visiting the Hecht Museum at the University of Haifa in Israel, museum officials said Wednesday. 

The jar is at least 3,500 years old, the museum told CBS News in a statement, and dates back to the Middle Bronze Age. 

The 4-year-old boy "pulled the jar slightly," his father Alex told CBS News partner BBC News. The boy was "curious about what was inside," Alex said, and the movement caused the jar to fall, smashing into several large pieces.