One Saturday afternoon in September 1954, a handsome, faintly smiling god looked up from the London mud. His name was Mithras, and the rediscovered Roman temple to his cult became a sensation in a ...

Almost 2,000 years ago the Romans built a temple next to the river Thames in London, to one of their most mysterious cult figures, Mithras the bull-slayer. The temple has been restored and it is now ...

London's Walbrook Street yielded an astonishing discovery in 1952: a remarkably preserved 1800-year-old Roman temple ...

A new analysis using satellite maps and a software that can plot the direction of sunrise and sunset revealed that the ‘Mithraeum’ beside a Roman fort in Carrawburgh lines up with both the winter ...

British archaeology has enjoyed a surge of interest of late, with the recent unearthing of Richard III in a certain Leicester car park. However, one London archaeological site remains in limbo: the ...

Visitors to new museum will uncover mystery cult of Mithras the bull slayer in multi-sensory experience London’s Roman-era Temple of Mithras, once displayed on a car park roof with a crazy paving ...

It doesn’t look much like it when you walk past the Bloomberg skyscraper in the City, but you’re actually right next to an ancient piece of Rome. The temple of Mithras has been restored to its ...

60 years ago, archaeologists digging in the London clay disturbed an ancient god from its centuries-long slumber. A Roman temple devoted to Mithras, a mysterious deity with Persian origins, was ...

In a month which marks 60 years since the discovery of the Temple of Mithras in London, a project is under way calling for people who witnessed the excavation in 1954 to come forward to tell their ...

Sixty years ago, a Roman God was uncovered at a London building site. The excavations for the Temple of Mithras moved around but are now going back to the original site - how do you reconstruct a ...