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Temple of Mithras, London - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Temple of Mithras, Walbrook, perhaps the most famous of all twentieth-century Roman discoveries in the City of London, was discovered in Walbrook, a street in the City of London, during rebuilding work in 1957. |
 | | The temple, initially hoped to have been an early Christian church, was built in the mid-3rd century and dedicated to Mithras or perhaps jointly to several deities popular among Roman soldiers. |
 | | Found within the temple where they had been carefully buried at the time of its rededication were finely-detailed third-century white marble likenesses of Minerva, Mercury the guide of the souls of the dead, and the syncretic gods Mithras and Serapis, imported from Italy. |
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