White marble countertops are often seen as a luxe, timeless, and classic choice, but they might not be the best fit for ...

The Pantheon temple in Rome glistens with precious, white marble from Italy’s town of Carrara, a stone that was prized by the ancient Romans and Renaissance masters. Now, extraction rates of ...

Visit Washington, D.C., and you’ll see something from western Colorado. The marble used in some of the nation’s monuments came from the Yule quarry at Marble, Colo. You can see Yule marble at the Tomb ...

Restoring the Ruin. The ancient Greeks took only eight or nine years to build the Parthenon. Its modern restorers, led by Greek architect Manolis Korres, have already taken over 30 years and ...

Old-world charm and modern culture collide in this European city full of art, history, street murals, and digital museums you ...

A ccording to an essay penned by a University of Iowa professor, seeing white-marble sculpture “continues to influence white supremacist ideas,” and it’s a shame that this is “often ignored.

Nude male athletes ran track on this site during Athens’ early answer to the Olympics, the Panathenaia celebrations, attracting contestants from all over the Greek empire to a new marble stadium ...

Unlocking Mysteries of the Parthenon Restoration of the 2,500-year-old temple is yielding new insights into the engineering feats of the golden age’s master builders ...