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 railroad stations that line the Town of Babylon have left their mark in those communities, and now that impact will be acknowledged with historical markers. Eight current and former railroad ...

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.