Carl William Blegen (Minneapolis (Minnesota), 27 January 1887 – Athens (Greece), 24 August 1971) was an American archaeologist, who has dug in Troy . In 1910 left Blegen to Greece. He did excavations in various smaller centers of the Mycenaean culture, and suggested that this had been Greek, with which he led byArthur Evans entered against the General view that a colony was of the Minoan civilization, and that only later were the Greeks entered Greece. The decipherment ofLinear B after World War II showed that Blegen was right had.