Tienen Mithraeum

The Tienen Mithraeum is a Mithraic temple constructed in the Belgian municipality of Tienen in the third century CE [1]. The ruins were not discovered until 1998 through excavation of the site labeled, Grijpenveld [1]. The Mithraic temple is located in the southwestern region of Tienen [1]. Beside the mithraeum is a pebble road that leads to the center of Tienen as well as a discovered tumulus, built a century before the temple [1]. From the entrance a 12-metre-long x two-metre-wide central path is found [1]. Ritual sites near the mithraeum, were found to contain nearly 14,000 animal remains [1]. A majority of these animals were pigs, sheep and chickens, killed in a juvenile state, while the other birds were killed as adults [1].