So You Haven't Read Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi? This comic is about growing up in Iran during the tumultuous 1980s and the ...

The author of the internationally acclaimed graphic novel Persepolis, about a young girl coming of age during Iran's Islamic Revolution, Satrapi thought she had left comics behind. She's mostly ...

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 ...

There are over 3,000 species of lichen in Iran, with 500 to 700 varieties making ancient monuments their home. Some of the species at Persepolis were more than 1,700 years old.

Persepolis recounts the story of Satrapi’s early life in Tehran, struggling under the restrictions imposed by Iran’s leadership after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, before she is sent to Europe ...

On the occasion of the 45th anniversary of Persepolis's registration as a UNESCO World Heritage site, Alireza Askari Chaverdi remarked that the term 'Iran' embodies a complex philosophical concept ...

The fight, which began years ago, is aimed at stopping the threat to the integrity of the site's structures and its intricate carvings from lichens, organisms that grow on surfaces like stone and ...

PERSEPOLIS, Iran – 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 ...