Alan Wace, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alan Wace

British archaeologist

Date of Birth: 13-Jul-1879

Place of Birth: Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 09-Nov-1957

Profession: university teacher, art historian, classical scholar, archaeologist, anthropologist, classical archaeologist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Alan John Bayard Wace (13 July 1879 in Cambridge, England – 9 November 1957, in Athens, Greece) was an English archaeologist.Wace was educated at Shrewsbury School and Pembroke College, Cambridge.
He was director of the British School at Athens (1914-1923), Deputy Keeper in the Department of Textiles in the Victoria and Albert Museum (1924-1934), the second Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology at University of Cambridge (1934-1944) and professor at the Farouk I University in Egypt (1943-1952). Among Wace's field projects were those at Sparta, Mycenae, Troy, Thessaly, Corinth, and Alexandria.
Along with Carl Blegen, Wace carried out important work on the decipherment of Linear B tablets.