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Can you imagine knocking down a wall to renovate your basement…and discovering an intact Mithraeum?

In 1963, a Mr. Zoffoli was enlarging his wine-cellar in Marino, a village about 13km/8 miles south of Rome, and discovered 13.25 x 8m entrance hall, behind which was a 29.20 x 3.10m grotto dedicated to Mithras. This Mithraeum dates to 160-200 C.E. The most important find was that many spectacular paintings adorn the walls. 

Sources:

http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/mithras/display.php?page=supp_Italy_Marino_Mithraeum

http://chaudron.blogspot.com/2011/01/mithraeum-at-marino.html

Black basalt monument stone recording Esarhaddon's restoration of Babylon, Babylon, circa 670 BC

Half hour glass, Germany, circa 1500-1525