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.
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.
On what Hekate’s name may or may not tell us, and why the uncertainty matters.
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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 underground cave which served as temple was cut into the conglomerate rock of the area, and a flight of eight steps of stone slabs led to it.
The Niasar Cave, غار نیاسر, was a temple probably devoted to Iranian Mithras that dates back to the early Partian era.
Mithras and other oriental gods were worshipped in the shrine of Zeus near the Villa of the Quintilians in Rome.
The Mithraeum of Cyrene is preserved among the remarkable ruins of the ancient capital of the Roman province of Cyrene.
Marble tauroctony relief from Aix-en-Provence
Funerary inscription of Publius Anthius Logus from Montpellier
Tauroctony from Reșca
Sandstone petrogenesis from Carnuntum
Tauroctony relief from Şehitkamil (Gaziantep)
Altar of Manius Cretinus from Gherla
Small fragment of a tauroctony from Cincșor
Terracotta krater from the Friedberg Mithraeum
Triangular sandstone relief with crescent from Nida
Sententia
Dear Amicus: as early as the 3rd century AD, Plotinus wrote that the soul was divided into a lower and a higher part: ".…
on Mithraeum at Santa Maria Capua Vetere. Revisited in February 2026
An essential article for understanding the archaeoastronomical orientation of the Hawarte Mithraeum…
You can see, by the scoring in the "stone", that the corner was simply added to make it more…
Thrilled to help. =D
I believe that the top left corner does not come from this relief: there is no Sun facing the Moon…
There has to be a mistake somewhere because it hase same CIMRM number as "Aion of Villa Albani"
On this, the sun and the moon are a common motif in Roman iconography, appearing of course on the…
We note the alignment: the dog, Mithras’ thigh, cape, raven and Sol; on the other side: bull…
