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.
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Introductio
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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 Mitreo dei Marmi Colorati takes its name after the discovery of a black-and-white mosaic of Pan fighting with Eros.
Excavated in 1919, the Mithraeum near the Roman Gate was installed in the 3rd century within a larger building complex.
The name of this domus comes from the fact that some authors once associated one of its mosaics with the cult of Mithras, a connection that has since been dismissed.
Amethyst intaglio with Tauroctony
Altar to Deo Invicto Regi from Bandorf
Seal of King Šauštatar of Mitanni
Fragmentary tauroctony from Kostolac
Mithras birth from Petronell
Marble statue of Cautopates from Intercisa
Marble relief fragment of Mithras from Apulum
Fragmentary tauroctony from Solin
Two-register tauroctony from Ratiaria
Sententia
Can anyone find a picture of this or take one when around? thx
https://www.mithraeum.eu/quaere.php?tag=oceanus
Monism, chiasm, and dialectics: three principles of thought.
Ave, dear Andreu, Christianity is contemporary with Mithras and indeed borrows the Platonic chiasma…
Dear Professor Campos, Remarkable work, indeed! I have two modest reflexions to suggest:…
On the basilica of Autun (1148) the journey is reversed: souls ascend to heaven by the Moon and…
Thank you for sharing, much appreciated
;) and what about the armour!
on a post
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
