Hidden Sun: Mithras and the Lost Religion of Rome's Soldiers

The Hidden Sun: Mithras and the Lost Religion of Rome's Soldiers Beneath the streets of Roman London, in a besieged fortress on the Euphrates, and inside a painted cave in southern Italy, archaeologists keep finding the same haunting image: a god in foreign dress, kneeling on a dying bull, his face turned toward the sun. For nearly three centuries, this scene stood at the heart of one of antiquity...