The New Mithraeum Database

This collective volume explores the ways ancient peoples interacted with divine powers through prayer, magic, and the interpretation of the stars. Drawing on evidence from Mesopotamia to Late Antiquity, it situates these practices within broader religious and cosmological systems…

Robert Turcan présente les dévotions immigrées dans le monde romain, sans négliger les cultes marginaux ou sporadiques, traitant également des courants gnostiques, occultistes et théosophiques.

Dans un VIIIᵉ siècle uchronique où Mithra est devenu le dieu officiel de Rome, Rachel Tanner imagine un empire impitoyable, déchiré entre révoltes barbares, intrigues politiques et résistances occultes, porté par une fresque de fantasy historique d’une intensité rare…

This magnificently illustrated publication renews the Mithraic dossier on the basis of concrete data, with caution and penetration. Marino's discovery is disconcerting and rekindles the controversy about the order in which bands should be read.

The Mithraeum of Tazoult / Lambèse is one of the best preserved Mithras’s temples in Africa.

Saul cutting the oxen to pieces poses as Mithras Tauroctonos in this painting, which adorns the mantelpiece of Henry II’s bedroom at the Château d’Écouen near Paris.

Mithras the Cattle-Rustler: The Persian Cult of Fire as Divided into Sexed Powers and the Hidden Cave Rites of the Magi.

The relief depict several unusual scenes from Mithras’s myth.

Around the relief with Mithras as a bullkiller, a number of scenes from the Mithras Iegend have been painted in the Mithraeum of Dura Europos.

Tracing the links between the cult of Mithras and the Proud Boys’ quest for identity, power, and belonging. How ancient rituals and brotherhood ideals resurface in radical modern movements.

Awareness of Half blood The Kami path and Mithras As paths to God

The Cautopates of Bordeaux stands as usual with his legs crossed and arms down.

The most emblematic of the Syrian Mithraea was discovered in 1933 by a team led by the Russian historian Mikhaïl Rostovtzeff.

The Mithraeum of Symphorus and Marcus, in Óbuda, Budapest, has been restored to public view in 2004 and, while well presented, it has been heavily restored.

Laurent Bricault has revolutionised Mithraic studies with the exhibition The Mystery of Mithras. Meet this professor in Toulouse for a fascinating look at the latest discoveries and what lies ahead.

This relief of Mithras as bull slayer is surrounded by Cautes and Cautopates with their usual torch plus an oval object.

This plaque from Carsulae, in Umbria, refers to the creation of a leonteum erected by the lions at their own expense.

Both of them were discovered in 1609 in the foundations of the façade of the church of San Pietro, Rome.

One of the reliefs of the Dura Europos tauroctonies includes several characters with their respective names.