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The exhibition The Mystery of Mithras opens at the Mariemont Museum in Belgium, home of Franz Cumont, the father of studies on the solar god.
In one of Hawarte's frescoes, the rock birth of Mithras is preceded by Zeus and followed by the young Persian god suspended from a cypress tree.
A dinner scene with Sabina from the Catacombe dei Santi Marcellino e Pietro, near Rome, may have been commissioned by a follower of Mithras.
Luna riding a biga in the Mithraeum of Santa Capua Vetere.
Glass paste imprint depicting the Tauroctony surrounded by symbolic figures.
According to Pettazzoni Aion in general finds its iconographical origin in Egypt. Mithras must have been worshipped in Egypt in the third century B.C.
The relief of Sol was found during the construction of Piazza Dante in Rome in 1874.
García y Bellido proposed the existence of a mithraeum in a narrow, elongated room where the Troia mithraic relief was found.
The Mitreo dei Marmi Colorati takes its name after the discovery of a black-and-white mosaic of Pan fighting with Eros.
Of this great relief of Mithras slaying the bull only a few segments remain.
Three European museums celebrate Mithras with a continental exhibition featuring more than 200 works of art from Roman times to the present day.
Video report in Hungarian by the Aquincum Museum on the Mithraic discoveries in the region.
The Mithraeum of Carminiello ai Mannesi was installed in two rooms of a 1st century BC domus.
The Tauroctony relief of Mithras killing the bull walled in the Cortile of the Belvedered, Vatican City, was found by Fagan near Ostia.
Interview to one of the workers who participated in the discovery of the temple of Mithras of Marino, Rome.
Video report of the Italian TV channel La 7 about Mithraism made in the Mithraeum of the Circo Massimo.
Our modern understanding of Mithraism, though, depends largely on a few short (and very problematic) literary mentions, mostly written by the cult’s Christian rivals.
Between the 1st and 4th centuries, Mithraism developed throughout the Roman world. Much material exists, but textual evidence is scarce. The only ancient work that fills this gap is Porphyry’s intense and complex essay.
