Franz-Valéry-Marie Cumont was a Belgian archaeologist and historian, a philologist and student of epigraphy, who brought these often isolated specialties to bear on the syncretic mystery religions of Late Antiquity, notably Mithraism. Cumont was a graduate of the University of Ghent (PhD, 1887). After receiving royal travelling fellowships, he undertook archaeology in Pontus and Armenia (published in 1906) and in Syria, … Wikipedia
Cumont's work immediately became accepted as the definitive study of the cult, and remained virtually unchallenged for over seventy years. www.well.com/user/davidu/mithras.html
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