M'hamed Hassine Fantar (Arabic: محمد حسين فنطر, born October 1, 1936, in Ksar Hellal) is a professor of Ancient History of Archeology and History of Religion at Tunis University.

Director of the Division of Museums, then Director of Center for the Study of Phoenician-Punic Civilization and Libyan Antiquities, he's the Founder of the Revue des études phéniciennes-puniques et des antiquités libyques (Reppal).

He's Member of the Association for the Promotion of Studies on Prehistoric, Ancient and Medieval North Africa, of the Committee on Historical and Scientific Works and the World Heritage Committee.

He's also a Corresponding Member at the German Archaeological Institute, at the Real Academia de la Historia and at the Accademia dei Lincei.

President of the Tunisian Association for History and Archeology, he's the author of many books and a hundred of academic papers devoted to the Ancient Carthage.