What They Found Under a Roman Church Rewrites 2,000 Years of History

Añadido: 2026-05-22

[00:00:00]Mithra served bread and wine 100 years before Christ.

[00:00:03]Roman soldiers performed this ritual in underground temples called [music] Mithraea.

[00:00:08]One of those temples still exists beneath a Christian Basilica in Rome.

[00:00:12]The Basilica of San Clemente [music] was built directly on top of it. Excavations in 1914 confirmed the altar.

[00:00:20]The tauroctony carving faces the exact [music] spot where initiates shared bread and wine.

[00:00:25]The Mithraic hierarchy had seven grades: [music] raven, bridegroom, soldier, lion, Persian, sun-runner, father.

[00:00:33]Constantine banned Mithraism in the 4th century. The Vatican now sits above at least one confirmed Mithraeum.

[00:00:40]The sacred meal predates the Last Supper by a century. That detail never appears in the standard history. [music] What changed after Constantine is not what was invented. It is what was absorbed. What do you think survived [music] the ban?