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

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

"It's all me me me," she says. "Or me me and myself. Then more me. It's just disgusting. (Laughs.) Every once in a while, I'll look at myself in the mirror and just say, 'Shut up. Stop talking about ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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, ...

Early on, the film plunges into the realm of memory, dissolving into a flashback rendered in stark, expressionistic black and white (Rex) A woman sits forlorn in an airport terminal. Her head, heavy ...