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Mariemont unveils
(some of) the Mysteries of Mithras

The exhibition The Mystery of Mithras opens at the Mariemont Museum in Belgium, home of Franz Cumont, the father of studies on the solar god.

Olivier-Antoine Reÿnès

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  • Life around the world’s largest Mithras temple revealed at Doliche

    Archaeologists at Doliche are now excavating houses around the vast Mithras temple to learn how people lived beside the sanctuary.

    Newsroom

  • The Mysteries of Mithras

    The Mysteries of Mithras is an independent Initiatic Order which is inspired by and uses the allegory of the lost and ancient Mithraic Mysteries also known as Mithraism a previously influential Roman Cult of the same name.

    Mysteriesofmithras/sandbox

  • The Mirror of Mithras

    Over the last century or so, a great deal has been said about the god Mithras and his mysteries, which became known to the European world mainly through his Roman cultus during the Imperial Period.

    P Sufenas Virius Lupus

  • A new mithraeum discovered during excavation in Trier

    A place of worship for the Roman god of light Mithras was discovered during archaeological excavations in Trier. This includes a larger relief.

  • Hallan en el yacimiento romano de Cabra (Córdoba) un lugar de culto al dios Mithra

    Las excavaciones llevadas a cabo en el yacimiento arqueológico romano de la villa de Mithra, en Cabra (Córdoba), han deparado el excepcional hallazgo de un mitreo, o zona destinada al culto al dios Mithra, cuya estatua fue descubierta hace unos 70 años.

    Agencia

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Some places to visit

  • Mitreo de Carminiello ai Mannesi

    The Mithraeum of Carminiello ai Mannesi was installed in two rooms of a 1st century BC domus.

     
  • Mitreo de Lugo

    The exploration of an old pazo, a manor house, near the Roman wall, in Lugo, led to the discovery of a Roman domus, which existed continuously from the beginnings of the Christian Era until the Late Empire.

     
  • Mithräum von Trier

    The Trier Mithräum was discovered during work on the city’s new fire station. The findings included a Cautes limestone relief.

     
  • Mithréum de Septeuil

    In the second half of the 4th century, a Mithraic temple was established within an earlier spring sanctuary at Septeuil, where the cult of the nymphs and Mithraic practices appear to have coexisted.

     

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Guest insights

Terri Julians

I am interested in this as my 87 year old friend grew up in Burham and remembers a track she used…

on Mithraeum of Burham

 

Pattie L

CIMRM 1743 You’re as dyslexic as me! ;-) (Gotta love that the inventory number is stamped right on the stomach…

on CIMRM 1743

 

The New Mithraeum

En effet, des très belles œuvres de l'Antiquité à découvrir à la BnF.

on a post

 

Dr Thomas Daffern

what exactly does it mean to be an "owner of a facebook group".. I set up a facebook group on…

on Pattie

 

Dominique PERSOONS

Hello Gabriel, the article you present on the relationship between the religion of the unconquered…

on From Mithraism to Freemasonry. A history of ideas

 

The New Mithraeum

Strange! I am not in Rome, but I would expect it to be open every day, even more in the summer!…

on a post

 

Pattie L

British Museum: Gallery 1 (G1/od/nr186)

on Torchbearer of Porta Portese

 

Pattie L

"...probably an upturned vase with flowers." This needs an eye roll emoji. Seriously, what’s the likelihood?…

on CIMRM 1006

 

Jorge Gallo

If this phallus really belonged to the mithraeum where it is currently placed and not elsewhere…

on Phallus relief from the Mithraeum of Tiddis

 
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