The Damien Chazelle film explores a real place and time and embraces Tinseltown's history, to a point. By Chris Yogerst When Blanche Sweet sang “there’s a tear for every smile in Hollywood” in Show ...

What do public orgies, mountains of cocaine, and a party-crashing elephant have in common? They all make an appearance in the first 20 minutes of Damien Chazelle’s new movie Babylon. In the three-hour ...

The electrified Babylon Trolley system used to carry passengers from Amityville to Babylon Village. The 35-minute trip ran every 30 to 45 minutes and cost 10 cents. The trolley is long gone — as are ...

The history of the ancient city of Babylon still has the power to hold us spellbound, entrenched as it is in myth, legend and fantastic sounding biblical tales. So much so, that sometimes we tend to ...

Until the discovery and decipherment of Akkadian and Sumerian cuneiform texts and inscriptions in the 19 th century, Babylon was known to the Western World mainly through Greek sources and the Bible.

BABYLON, Iraq — A U.S.-funded program to restore the ruins of Iraq’s ancient city of Babylon is threatened by a dispute among Iraqi officials over whether the priority should be preserving the site or ...

The haroset most American Jews eat at the Passover seder to symbolize the mortar used by Hebrew slaves contains apples, walnuts and Manischewitz. But the delicious chunky mixture originated in ancient ...