Istanbul, located on the shores of the Bosphorus, is one of the most popular tourist cities in the world. It is full of white mosques, fragrant spices, ancient architecture, and thousands of legends.

White marble was first quarried over 2,000 years ago, and has since been famously used in buildings like Rome's Pantheon and India's Taj Mahal. Michaelangelo carved a block of it to create his ...

Greek and Roman marble antiquities have traditionally been viewed as white, but recent scientific studies have shown that they were often painted with bright colors – an accidental "whitewashing ...