In the first known interaction between the two nations, the ancient Persians freed the Jews from captivity in Babylon.

So when an opportunity opened up at a buzzy new health-tech startup, Babylon Health, he applied. Founded in London in 2013 by Ali Parsa, a British-Iranian ex-banker, Babylon had a lofty goal ...

He later decided to take the Babylonian story out, shoot a few extra scenes, and send it forth as The Fall of Babylon. The public wasn’t entirely crazy about D.W. Griffith’s massive production ...

Watching Damien Chazelle’s “Babylon,” in all its superficially titillating, occasionally exciting and mostly exhausting wretched excess (the orgies, the elephant poop, the contempo actors ...