We speak with Israel Campos Méndez about questions that continue to divide scholars: what links the Indo-Iranian Mithra to the deity worshipped in the Roman Empire, and what do we really know about the origins of Roman Mithraism?
Notitiae
Arguments for interpreting the Tomb of the Elephant as a Mithraeum based on architectural archaeology, digital surveying and archaeoastronomy.
We speak with Israel Campos Méndez about questions that continue to divide scholars: what links the Indo-Iranian Mithra to the deity worshipped in the Roman Empire, and what do we really know about the origins of Roman Mithraism?
Labors of Hercules as planetary zodiacal initiations: model mystagogy. The alchemy of Herculean labors.
Lenni George on Hekate’s development across ancient traditions, from mystery cults to magical practice and philosophical thought.
Libri
Introductio
Press clips
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 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
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.
Agencia
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.
The Mithraeum in the Chapel of the Three Naves was not linked to the cult of Mithras until recently because of a mosaic showing a pig, in the belief that it was an animal unfit for consumption in a temple of Eastern origin.
After Christianity was adopted, most pagan monuments were destroyed or abandoned. Garni, however, was preserved at the request of the sister of King Tiridates II and used as a summer residence for Armenian royalty.
The Mithraeum of the Crypta Balbi was locted in the middle of a densely populated insula near the theatre of Cornelius Balbus.
An inscription mentioning a speleum decorated by Publilius Ceionius suggests the location of a mithraeum in Cirta, the capital of Numidia.
Tauroctony relief from Oescus
Limestone tauroctony relief from Aquincum
Tauroctony relief from Biljanovac
Tauroctony relief from Ozd
Altar bearing a relief of Cautopates from Silistra
Cultores Inscription from Tiddis
Marble relief fragment of Mithras from Apulum
Arm with stars and a swastika
Bronze torchbearer from the Cabinet des Médailles
Sententia
There has to be a mistake somewhere because it hase same CIMRM number as "Aion of Villa Albani"
CIMRM 2170 [ref:69cac135b3073]
Dear Dominique, interesting observation. However, the placement of Selene (Luna) in this Mithraeum…
on Mithraeum at Santa Maria Capua Vetere. Revisited in February 2026
The journey of the soul in the Mithraic ritual: hypothesis of resurrection or reincarnation…
on Mithraeum at Santa Maria Capua Vetere. Revisited in February 2026
thank you, dominique!!
Here you go https://www.mithraeum.eu/monument/770
Honestly, thank you. Recognition helps.
on Sandstone base with Medusa and torchbearer from Carnuntum
An essential article for understanding the archaeoastronomical orientation of the Hawarte Mithraeum…
A revision of this: [ref:6a071346a6001]
