<p>Johns Hopkins University announced last month that it will offer an archaeology major separate from its current anthropology program, according to The Johns Hopkins News-Letter.</p>
<p>A separate archaeology program is rare in American universities. Of the College of William and Mary, the University of Virginia, James Madison University, and Virginia Tech, only U.Va. offers an interdisciplinary major in archaeology as well as anthropology.</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins also is ranked top ten for history. The new archaeology major was inspired in part by the University’s new plans to renovate its Archaeological Collection as part of the Gilman Hall renovation and will be available in fall of 2009. </p>
<p>Hopkins regularly sends teams of students to go to digs in archeological sites in Egypt and is one of the few US schools that offer Egyptology and Assyriology as majors…</p>
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