The Mithraeum of Doliche, ancient Dülük, Turkey, is the biggest one found yet and the only one split in two different shrines.

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A Mithraeum was discovered in 2007, during the excavations at the Zerzevan Castle.

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Antiochus I of Commagene shakes Mithras hands in this relief from the Nemrut Dagi temple.

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The lion relief from Nemrut Dag has the moon and several stars over his body.

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The colossal head has been identified as a solar god, Apollo-Mihr-Mithras-Helios-Hermes.

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Mount Nemrut or Nemrud is one of the highest peaks in the eastern Taurus Mountains, southeastern Turkey. On its summit large statues stand around what is supposed to be a royal tomb from the 1st century BC.

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The mithraic relief of Baris, current Turkey, depicts a proto version of the Tauroctony with a winged Mithras surrounded by two Victories.

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The bronze medallion, from Cilicia, shows Mithras Tauroctonus on the revers.

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Despite the current political landscape of the US, we can look to antiquity to see that the red cap was actually once a symbol of citizenship and welcome to the foreigner.

The fraternal order that focussed on the worship of the ancient Iranian god Mithra was probably formed in Iran, Armenia, and Pontus (the southern coastal region of the Black Sea in eastern Anatolia, present-day Turkey).