Reconstructing the Roman Religion of Mithras. Special | 50m 18s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Matthew McCarty explores the cult worship of the ancient Persian god Mithras. Matthew McCarty ...

The cult of Mithras is a particularly useful choice for a comparison with Christianity, especially Roman Catholicism, because several elements of Mithraic religion were adopted by early Christians ...

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 ...

The cult of Mithras is shrouded in mystery. It was all male, made up from the Roman army, merchants and civil servants. While no one really knows what went on in the temples, ...

The cult of Mithras was very popular among Roman military personnel, the release said. Cult spaces were typically built in caves or underground , according to Südwestrundfunk, a German news outlet.

Jerusalem — For 400 years, Roman soldiers and laborers gathered in underground sanctums to practice secret rituals before a stone carving of a god stabbing a bull to death.The god was Mithras ...

The cult of Mithras was very popular among Roman military personnel, the release said. Cult spaces were typically built in caves or underground , according to Südwestrundfunk, a German news outlet.