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Alan Wace (pictured) was an English archaeologist, who served as director of the British School at Athens (BSA) between 1914 and 1923. He excavated widely in Thessaly, Laconia and Egypt and at the Bronze Age site of Mycenae in Greece. Along with Carl Blegen, Wace formulated the "Helladic Heresy", which argued against that the established scholarly view that Minoan Crete had dominated mainland Greek ("Helladic") culture during the Bronze Age. Wace's excavations at Mycenae in the early 1920s established a chronological schema for the site's tombs and largely proved the "Helladic Heresy" correct. Wace served as the Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology at Cambridge University between 1934 and 1944, and ended his career at Alexandria's Farouk I University. During both world wars, he worked for the British intelligence services, including as a section head for MI6 during the Second World War.