Book Description: Over the course of the second century CE, worship of the Persianate god Mithras swept across the whole of the Roman Empire. With its distinctive traces preserved in the material ...

HBO Max's sci-fi series Raised By Wolves features a religious faction that references Sol and the Mithraic Mysteries. Here are the real-world Roman concepts the show borrowed from.

What were the similarities between Christianity and other 'mystery cults' like Mithraism? Did they influence each other, and if so, how? Suppose that we view the Roman empire of the first four ...

However, Mithraism went into decline in the 4th century AD with the rise of Christianity and eventually completely disappeared.

TEHRAN – A newly-discovered rock-carving in western Iran could have a link to Mithraism, a prehistorical religion inspired by Iranian worship of the Zoroastrian god Mithra.

What were the similarities between Christianity and other 'mystery cults' like Mithraism? Did they influence each other, and if so, how? Suppose that we view the Roman empire of the first four ...