In a shadowy niche of the Museum of London lies one of its greatest treasures: the Head of Mithras, discovered only a few streets away in 1954.Mithras was a god associated with the sun and the ritual slaying of a bull: his cult may have originated in modern-day Iran but, by the third century AD, a temple had been founded in his honour at the opposite end of the Roman Empire: a rainy outpost beside the Thames, in what would one day become the financial district of the city of London.
[
add
]
[
|
|
...
]