23rd international congress of history of religions: speaking about the recent state and possible future of materiality of Roman religion

My review of an amazing book. Probably the best monograph on archaeology of Mithras:

www.academia.edu/143449638/Re...

Happy to share this interview published by the University of Szeged.

u-szeged.hu/news-and-eve...

will take some time, but will keep you and everyone interested updated

lets hope. Lot of work, difficult tasks (lot of unpublished material lies in local museums and the local archaeologists always have the right and priority to publish it first: so that will be a main challange how to negociate with local guys...:)

Happy to announce that we will have a 5 years long research project with a group of young scholars focusing on the Roman cult of Mithras in the Danubian provinces.
Details soon!

religioacademici.wordpress.com/2025/07/01/a...

We are getting there:

our long-awaited book is expected to be published in late autumn. It will be the first book to focus exclusively on Roman sanctuaries in Central-Eastern Europe and on the methods and limits of the archaeology of religion in practice.

Contents soon!

brill.com/display/titl...

All my webpages (academic and public) in one link now:

linktr.ee/TSzaboCsaba

I was negociating with AI for an hour or more to create some of the initiation scenes of a Mithras sanctuary. As nudity is not really allowed, this was the "best" I could do.

More sensational photos from the 6th Mithraeum of Aquincum, lifted yesterday in the sky for future preservation.
Source:
m.hvg.hu/kultura/2025...

Amazing news: the recently discovered 6th Mithras sanctuary in Aquincum (Budapest, Hungary) will be saved and later restored.
See also my article on the role of Mithras sanctuaries as potential centres for cultural tourism:
www.academia.edu/126540263/Mi...

Orbán Viktor yesterday went beyond any acceptable limits: no Christians and no conservatives should tolerate this.
He named his political enemies as “bugs” (“poloska”) which need to be “cleaned”.
Similar political discourse was made in 1942 by Szálasi Ferenc.
Nobody should tolerate this.

My review of an important book on the reception of classical antiquity in modern and contemporary Hungarian art and literature published by Hajdu Péter.

www.academia.edu/128116323/Cl...

Habilitation at the University of Szeged on Glocalization and Roman religion in the Danubian provinces

My review of this interesting book:

www.academia.edu/127828784/Re...

If you have friends, students or you are interested in religious studies, come and join us as MA student (English MA in religious studies):

www.facebook.com/relstud

The amazing Getic helmet from Cotofenesti is one of the national treasures of Romania. Today it was stollen with 3 Dacian bracelets from a small Dutch museum where it was in a temporary exhibition.
Why aren’t there armed guards when you have 2 kg of ancient gold…

drentsmuseum.nl/en/news/clos...

The success of Manfred Clauss' book on Roman Mithras is proved by the fact, that it was translated even recently in Estonian (2019) and French (2021).
In memoriam Manfred Clauss.

who are you exactly? No photo, no real name. I don't want trolls on my bluesky page, sorry.

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In memoriam Manfred Clauss (1945-2025)

We lost one of the most prestigious researchers of antiquity:
His book on Roman Mithras is and will be one of the best summaries of the cult and his epigraphic database will be used by hundreds of students and scholars globally.
S T T L

You can order my latest book for your institutional library, university or anyone eager to read about Roman religion in Central-Eastern Europe

www.oxbowbooks.com/978178925783...

Hey guys, I am online here too.

You can read my last article, the first overview of all the archaeologically attested Roman sanctuaries of Pannonia Superior and Inferior. 69 sanctuaries in these two provinces!

www.academia.edu/127167307/Sa...