It is precisely because the Mosul Museum director Zaid Ghazi Saadallah seems so composed during “Returning to Babylon” that his pain seems all the more acute, his anger just barely repressed.

Griffith lifted this sequence from Intolerance and edited it into a complete feature film in its own right. It's the Old Testament story about the destruction of Babylon and includes the spectacular ...

The sun hangs heavy over central Iraq in late afternoon, painting the ruins of Babylon in heat and light. Dust rises from the ground in soft clouds, carrying a faint scent that seems older than time ...