Amihai "Ami" Mazar 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. His "Archaeology of the Land of the Bible" is a widely used textbook for Israelite archaeology in universities.
