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.
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On universal traditions, local communities, initiation and ritual in the Roman cult of Mithras with Csaba Szabó.
An esoteric journey through Mithraic sanctuaries, blood symbolism, initiation, solar mysteries and the survival of the pagan spirit in the West.
A flaw in the dominant narrative or just the usual genealogy?
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Archaeologists at Doliche are now excavating houses around the vast Mithras temple to learn how people lived beside the sanctuary.
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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.
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A place of worship for the Roman god of light Mithras was discovered during archaeological excavations in Trier. This includes a larger relief.
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.
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On the occasion of the exhibition, the Royal Museum of Mariemont invites five experts from Europe to emulate the research on the cult of Mithras.
Mithras and other oriental gods were worshipped in the shrine of Zeus near the Villa of the Quintilians in Rome.
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.
The Niasar Cave, غار نیاسر, was a temple probably devoted to Iranian Mithras that dates back to the early Partian era.
Bronze torchbearer from the Cabinet des Médailles
Seal of King Šauštatar of Mitanni
Altar with donor lists from Solin
Tauroctony from Carnuntum
Fragment of a Mithraic tauroctony from Dacia
Altar to Cautes by Septimius Valentinus
Votive altar to Deo Invicto from Wiesbaden
Tauroctony from Reșca
Triangular sandstone relief with crescent from Nida
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Amazing article, thank you.
Was working in the 2200s today and found an image of this tauroctony on Flickr…
A revision of this: [ref:6a071346a6001]
Salve Isabelle, and thank you for pointing this out. You were right: the reference to Ad Enum was…
An essential article for understanding the archaeoastronomical orientation of the Hawarte Mithraeum…
There was an actual (charred) pinecone found in the floor at Carrawburgh. Understandably hard to tag…
Dear Senior Amicus, While you are, strictly speaking, absolutely correct, it is worth recalling…
on Mithraeum at Santa Maria Capua Vetere. Revisited in February 2026
Pine-cone hunting season is officially open: https://www.mithraeum.eu/quaere.php?tag=pinea
Awesome. Thanks!!
