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The Mithreaum of Lugo reveals the expansion of the Persian cult to the boundaries of Hispania

The museum that houses the temple of Mithras has become the most visited Roman space in the city since it opened.

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Castle and Mithraeum of Zerzevan candidate to World Heritage
The Temple of Mithras included in an ancient Roman military settlement was situated in the eastern border of the Empire.

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Carabinieri recover a Mithras Tauroctony about to be sold on the black market
The Mithriac votive sculpture comes from a clandestine excavation in the Tarquinia area.

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Introductio

Press clips

Before MAGA: Mithras, Phrygian Caps, and the Politics of Headwear
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.

Sarah E. Bond
Los dioses de Egipto y Persia que los romanos honraron en Lucus Augusti
La Domus de Mitreo y el Centro Arqueolóxico de San Roque muestran otra cara del viejo Lugo

Lorena García Calvo
Ritualized Body and Ritualized Identity
Recontextualizing the Initiation rituals of the Roman Mystery Cult of Mithras.

Nina Mazhjoo
Dazzling 'Temple of Colored Marbles' Honoring Roman God Discovered in Italy
The ancient Roman worshippers were likely in altered states of consciousness.

Owen Jarus
Reconstructed Roman Temple of Mithras opens to public in London
Visitors to new museum will uncover mystery cult of Mithras the bull slayer in multi-sensory experience.

Maev Kennedy

Mitreo di Santa Maria Capua Vetere

The Mithraeum of Santa Maria Capua Vetere preserves fresco depicting the Tauroctony of a white bull.
Mithraeum of the Baths of Caracalla

The Mitreo delle terme di Caracalla is the largest temple devoted to Mithras found in Roma.
Mitreo Barberini

The Barberini Mithraeum was discovered in 1936 in the garden of the Palazzo Barberini, owned by Conte A. Savorgnan di Brazza.
Mitreo di Vulci

The Mithraeum of Vulci is remarkable because of his high benches and the arches below them.

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Sententia

Robert Fritzius

For Laura Thomas. I installed a Google Earth image of Caesarea Maritima on my website.
on Mithraeum of Caesarea Maritima
Alex

I'd have like to see the face of the carabinieri when they discovered the sculpture.
on Carabinieri recover a Mithras Tauroctony about to be sold on the black market
John Brant

While there were many mithraea located at the forts on the Limes, there was not one at the Saalburg.
on Mithräum in Saalburg
Requi

Just read why they decided to continue to dig under the mithraeum before complaining: http://www.
on Head of Mithras from the Mithraeum of Angers
Ton van Reen

As far as I can find the CIMRM number of this one is: 1083 and not 606.
on Tauroctonia del Mitreo de Heddernheim
Vito Quattrocchi

On a tour of Caesarea Maritima, I got the opportunity to step inside the Mithraeum.
on Mithraeum of Caesarea Maritima
Ron Kassav

For rectification, Saïda or Sidon is in Lebanon...
on Mithraeum at Sidon
Laura Thomas

Where is the Mithraeum relative to Herod's temple, the amphitheatre or some other isgnificant landma...
on Mithraeum of Caesarea Maritima
Anonymous

This is shocking.
on Tauroctony exposed in the 'Sala dei Animali' of the Vatican Museaum

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