The Londinium Mithraeum and the excavation of two empires
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https://doi.org/10.34024/herodoto.2022.v7.15474Keywords:
Roman Britain (Britannia), Londinium, Londinium Mithraeum, Mithraeum Bloomberg Space, Archaeological HeritageAbstract
The discovery of the Londinium Mithraeum in 1952 was a milestone in the reconstruction of London after the bombings of World War II. Coming from the Hellenistic world, Mithraism arrived in Britannia in the second century AD, already re-signified, and worshiped by the army, merchants and rich freedmen. The temple dedicated to Mithras was built at the beginning of the third century and lasted until the middle of the IV, symbolizing resistance to the attacks of Christianity and was possibly reconsecrated to another deity. The excavation of the temple and the archaeological finds in the twentieth century in its interior have led many Britons to connect the remains of an ancient empire with the anxiety related to the death throes of their modern one. Despite the Mithraeum's success in modernity, its archaeological trajectory is complex and involves reconstruction issues of a large city like London and the role of museums and the private initiative in guarding the archaeological heritage.
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