<p>this is silly, and is likely of little interest or relevance to the OP. believe me, i know, this is not a new program at brown. </p>
<p>they recently combined departments to consolidate overlapping resources–for no other reason. </p>
<p>this has almost nothing to do with the undergraduate egyptology program at Brown which has awarded undergraduate egyptology degrees for 50 years and sent countless alumni to prominence in the field</p>