MAGGY ANTHONY NEWS RELEASE
Join noted mystery series author Maggy Anthony for “Egyptian Intrigue: Thea Stangos Meets King Tut,” a free lecture, book launch and discussion, Sunday, May 20 from 2-3 p.m. at the Wilbur D. May Museum, 1595 N. Sierra St. at Rancho San Rafael Regional Park in Reno.
The event is free and held in conjunction with the May Museum exhibition “King Tut: Wonderful Things,” which features 130 handcrafted replicas of artifacts found at the opening of Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922. Artisans from the Pharaonic Village in Giza spent more than 10 years recreating some of the most notable pieces of the famous excavation. Lecture participants will receive coupons for admission discounts to the exhibition, which has been extended through May 28.
Anthony, whose new book The Cup of the Ptolemies: A Thea Stangos Akashic Thriller recently launched on Amazon, will read excerpts from the work, which is set in ancient Egypt and modern Alexandria and New York, with historic references to mythology, archaeology and metaphysics. She will also talk about the notorious Curse of Tutankhamun, as well as her own experiences with Egyptian antiquities at the Louvre in Paris and the British Museum in London. A question and answer session will follow.
“In my college days I was a member of Britain’s Egypt Exploration Society and studied the Egyptian collection at the Louvre one summer,” says Anthony. “The Cup of the Ptolemies is the first in a new Thea Stangos mystery series, inspired in part by the intrigue of the ancient pharaohs who have captured the world’s imagination for centuries.”
Maggy Anthony is a retired family therapist who wrote her first book, Jung’s Circle of Women: The Valkyries, about the women she encountered during her studies at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich. She is also a novelist, poet and playwright and has taught extensively on mythology, dreams and issues of creative exploration, including at Esalen Institute and the University of California, San Francisco.
For more about the exhibition “King Tut: Wonderful Things from the Pharaoh’s Tomb” which runs through May 28 at the Wilbur D. May Museum, visit http://www.washoecounty.us/parks/museum/current.html or call (775) 785-5961.
For more about the free lecture May 20, call Maggy Anthony at (775) 830-8212 or email [email protected]. For information on The Cup of the Ptolemies: A Thea Stangos Akashic Thriller, which is available on Amazon as a Kindle eBook, and other books by Maggy Anthony, visit http://www.maanthony.com or http://www.amazon.com.
