see also:
Egyptomania in the News (current)
Egyptomania in the News 2008 July-December 
Egyptomania in the News 2008 January-June
Egyptomania in the News 2007
Egyptomania in the News 1970-1999
Current Egyptomania Lectures/Exhibits
The Quotable Egyptian Revival

2006

29 October
Restoration has been completed on "one of the most recognizable landmarks on Long Island," the clock tower in the Village of Roslyn (Long Island, New York,), notable for "its obelisk shape and mix of Gothic, Romanesque and Egyptian Revival styles."
New York Times

22 August
Regal Cinema in Oxford, England, built in 1937 with Egyptian Revival features, to be turned into an arts center.
Oxford Mail

10 August
Egyptologist Bob Brier's script for a film about the murder of Tutankhamun has been optioned. Roland Emmerich will direct.
Variety

6 July
Egyptian Revival Hope Abbey mausoleum in Oregon is now an art museum
Register-Guard

3 July
Disgraced former New York City police commissioner's name is stripped from the Tombs, the Egyptian Revival jail in New York City 
New York Times (paid subscription may be required to view entire article)

30 June
The Austin Nichols & Co. Warehouse, designed by Cass Gilbert in a minimalist Egyptian Revival style, is among a number of extremely threatened historic buildings along the East River in New York
New York Sun (paid subscription may be required to view entire article) 

26 May
Architects try to revive pharaonic style in Egypt 
AlArab  Online

8 March
An "action-adventure/romance pic, loosely based on Howard Carter's discovery of King Tut's treasures" is in the works from Paramount Pictures.
Variety

19 February
An editorial advocates for the preservation of the Egyptian Theatre in Coos Bay Oregon. 
Puget Sound Pipline (reprint from The World)

29 January
Ancient Egyptian: Coos Bay residents hope to save historic movie palace
Register-Guard

2005

19 July
It has been suggested that the 200th anniversary of the birth of famed architect Isambard Kingdom Brunel be marked by placing golden sphinxes on the Clifton Suspension Bridge. 
Bristol Evening Post

6 July
Japanese women are undergoing a procedure, involving gold string sewn  into the face, purportedly used by Cleopatra to preserve her youthful appearance. 
Mainichi  Daily News

1 May
Shooting is slated to begin next year on a movie based on Ahmed Osman's controversial ideas about Akhenaten and Nefertiti. Hugh Hudson will direct.
Variety

18 April
Article on the popularity of ancient Egypt. 
Los Angeles Times 

4 March
The effect of the Tutankhamun exhibit on the local economy (Basel) 
NZZ Online (in German) 

25 January
Replica of a statue of Thutmose III is installed at European Parliament  Headquarters 
Egyptian Government press report

2004

28 June
Universal Studios has constructed a new rollercoaster inspired by its "Mummy" movie franchise.
Variety

1 June
Shoe designer Christian Louboutin is influenced by the art of ancient Egypt.
Vogue

30 April
Building debris shuts L stop 
Damage to the Monadnock Building on West Jackson Street in Chicago, which features Egyptian Revival elements, temporarily shut a train station. 
press report  

28 March
Designer "John Galliano [...] has staged an Egyptian revival of his own with his spring haute-couture show for Christian Dior. If wearing Egyptian monuments isn't your thing, paper a room with Zuber et Cie's 'Vues D'Egypte' hand-blocked wallpaper."
New York Times

4 February
Article about the new neo-Art Deco building at Ten Columbus Circle in New York City. In its originally planned form, the building "resembled the Colossi of Memnon at Luxor. The design's Art Deco trim heightened the anachronistic Egyptian Revival effect. | The realized building remains Egyptian in scale (the towers could have gone higher), while the plain geometric forms hark back to the architect and pharaoh Amenhotep. You will notice an echo in the pyramid-shaped pilasters used by Philip Johnson for the Trump International Hotel and Condominiums across the street."
New York Times

2003

2 November 
The children's cartoon series Tutenstein stars "Tut-ankh-en-set-Amun [who] wakes from a 3,000-year sleep and climbs out of his dimly lighted sarcophagus."
New York Times

12 June
A documentary about the controversial use of the famous Nefertiti bust by a Hungarian artist team known as Little Warsaw--which lowered the ancient artifact onto the bronze figure of a woman's body--was presented at the Venice Biennale in 2003.
The Guardian

2001

9 May
Karen Essex, author of the historical novel Kleopatra, will write the script based on Anne Rice's novel, The Mummy; or Ramses the Damned.
Variety

2000

8 December
The historic Egyptian Theatre in Coos Bay Oregon is in peril. 
Puget Sound Pipline (reprint from The World)

5 December
The organ in the Coos Bay (Oregon) Egyptian Theatre has fallen into disrepair. 
Puget Sound Pipline (reprint from the Register-Guard)

27 August
Plans to restore the 185-foot-tall spire--lost to a hurricane in 1938--to the Egyptian Revival Old Whalers First Presbyterian Church in Sag Harbor (New York): "Extraordinary in design and construction, the spire, built in 1844 in the Egyptian Revival style by the noted architect Minard Lafever, was shaped like a sailor's spyglass in three sections: an octagonal colonnade at the bottom, a middle section designed to house a clock from the famed local clock-maker Ephraim Byram and a slender top resembling a minaret with an ornate vane." 
New York Times

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