Amihai Mazar, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Amihai Mazar

Israeli archaeologist

Date of Birth: 19-Nov-1942

Place of Birth: Haifa, Haifa District, Israel

Profession: archaeologist, anthropologist

Nationality: Israel

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Amihai "Ami" Mazar (Hebrew: ????? ????; born November 19, 1942) is an Israeli archaeologist.
Born in Haifa, Israel (then the British Mandate of Palestine), he has been since 1994 a professor at the Institute of Archaeology of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, holding the Eleazer Sukenik Chair in the Archaeology of Israel. 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.