During the 1936 excavations at Persepolis led by Erich Schmidt of the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute, a small ...

MARTIN GROVE interviews Marjane Satrapi, pictured, whose animated "Persepolis" is France's official entry for a foreign language Academy Award and might vie with "Ratatouille" for best animated ...

The so-called Ionian Revolt was the beginning of a series of events and war reprisals between Ancient Greeks and Persians.

Marjane Satrapi's "Persepolis" won international acclaim as an autobiographical tale, told first in the form of a graphic novel, later turned into a film, of a young girl coming of age amid the 1979 ...

Persepolis: Animation. Featuring the voices of Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve and Danielle Darrieux. Directed by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud. In French with English subtitles. (PG-13.

Back in early December I was given the opportunity to meet Persepolis' Iranian writer and director Marjane Satrapi and quickly jumped at the opportunity. Not only had a heard great things about the ...

Marjane Satrapi, author of "Persepolis," collaborates with others on a new graphic novel about Iran's "Women, Life, Freedom" protest movement. Marjane Satrapi has just published a new graphic novel ...

Conservationists at Persepolis, Iran’s most iconic ancient site, are waging a delicate battle against an unlikely adversary: tiny but persistent lichens eroding the millennia-old monuments. The fight, ...