Archeologist Eilat Mazar, Who Made Significant Jerusalem Discoveries, Dies The Media Line Staff 05/26/2021
Dr. Eilat Mazar, a third-generation biblical archeologist who made significant discoveries in Jerusalem, has died. Mazar died on Tuesday at the age of 64 after a serious illness.
Mazar, who specialized in the Phoenician culture of Israel’s northern coastal plain, directed excavations in the City of David and the Temple Mount’s southern wall. She worked as a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Institute of Archaeology.
She participated in archaeological digs starting from a young age, as the granddaughter of Prof. Benjamin Mazar who excavated the Land of Israel during the British Mandate period.
One of Israel’s leading archaeologists and a dear friend of CBN, sixty-four-year-old Dr. Eilat Mazar died on May 25th. For years, Mazar served as an archaeology professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Institute of Archaeology.