Amihai Mazar

Amihai Mazar

Amihai "Ami" Mazar (Hebrew: עמיחי מזר‎) (born 1942) is an Israeli archaeologist. Born in Haifa, Israel (then the British Mandate of Palestine), he is currently (since 1994) Professor at the Institute of Archaeology of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, holding the Eleazer Sukenik Chair in the Archaeology of Israel.

Mazar has directed archaeological excavations at a number of sites in Israel that include:

• Tel Qasile
• Timnah (Tel Batash) - from 1977–1989
• Bet She'an - from 1989–1996
• Rehov (Tel Rehov) - from 1997 onwards (ongoing)

Mazar is an author in the field of Biblical archaeology, his Archaeology of the Land of the Bible is a text used in many universities.

Mazar is married with three children and resides in Jerusalem. He is the nephew of Benjamin Mazar, one of the first generation of pioneering Israeli archaeologists after Independence, and cousin to fellow archaeologist Eilat Mazar.