A light display in the recess of the temple depicts the cult statue of Mithras slaying a bull, an image that was the central icon of the cult. It is believed that soldiers and merchants gathered ...

Most of what we know about ancient Mithraism, we’ve put together from images and inscriptions from inside the secret chamber of the Mithraeum. This was a place of worship designed to look like a ...

In 1954, builders clearing a World War II bombsite in central London unearthed the remains of a Roman temple honouring Mithras, an ancient Roman-era deity, buried beneath the rubble ...

Book Description: Over the course of the second century CE, worship of the Persianate god Mithras swept across the whole of the Roman Empire. With its distinctive traces preserved in the material ...

The Cult of Mithras was a thriving religion in the Roman Empire. But by the 5th century....it was gone. What do we know about the Cult of Mithras? And what was its relationship with Christianity?

The High Priests of Mithras reached back a century to play ... and magicians failed to glean the meaning of his nocturnal images, Daniel, listening to the king's golden dream, surmised that ...

In a month which marks 60 years since the discovery of the Temple of Mithras in London ... forward to tell their stories and share their pictures of the event. Sophie Jackson, an archaeologist ...

A light display in the recess of the temple depicts the cult statue of Mithras slaying a bull, an image that was the central icon of the cult. It is believed that soldiers and merchants gathered ...