Welp. Silence on my end doesn't bode well for my application at Johns Hopkins.
Congrats on such great options! I don't think there's any doubt that Hopkins has the better program.
Near Eastern archaeology here. I applied in Canada (Toronto, UBC), the UK (UCL, Cambridge, Liverpool), and the US (Penn, Hopkins).
I was considering UCLA until I found out that they just lost an Egyptologist and that their Assyriologist and Near Eastern archaeologist are both retiring this year.