The New Mithraeum Database

In The Cult of Mithras in Late Antiquity David Walsh explores how the cult of Mithras developed across the 3rd and 4th centuries A.D. and why by the early 5th century the cult had completely disappeared. Contrary to the traditional narrative that the cult…

Society of Iranologists, Mythology, Department Member

David Ulansey argues that Mithraic iconography was actually an astronomical code, and that the cult began as a religious response to a startling scientific discovery.

professor of Archaeology at Sapienza (Rome)

Pater Sacrorum at Mithraeum Circo Massimo.

Pater Patrum and Senator. He was also the patriarch of the Olympian dynasty, overseeing a Mithraic community in the centre of Rome.

Public lecture by David Ulansey on Mithraism, based on his book The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries: Cosmology and Salvation in the Ancient World.

Chapter of In Search of Cyrus devoted to the origins of the Iranian god Mithra.

Vir perfectissimus and priest of Zeus Brontes and Hecate, he erected a mithraeum in Rome.

Blastia dedicated an altar to Mithras and Silvanus in Emona.

VIIIe siècle après Jésus-Christ : le culte de Mithra est devenu la religion officielle de l’Empire romain, et les autres cultes, dont celui de la petite secte chrétienne, sont férocement réprimés. Mais les mécontents s’agitent : peuples german…

Mithras Reader: An academic and religious journal of Greek, Roman, and Persian studies is dedicated to all the religions of the classical world in all its aspects-literature, history, poetry and philosophy. It includes academic papers from researchers and…

Actes du 2e Congrès International, Téhéran, du 1er au 8 septembre 1975. (Actes du Congrès, 4). Éditions Brill, collection. Acta Iranica.

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.

The ancient Roman worshippers were likely in altered states of consciousness.

Over the last century or so, a great deal has been said about the god Mithras and his mysteries, which became known to the European world mainly through his Roman cultus during the Imperial Period.