Think about marble and you probably think about gleaming kitchen countertops or elegant bathrooms covered floor-to-ceiling in slabs of veiny stone. Maybe you’ve walked on marble tiles in the lobby of a luxury hotel. Or you might have visited the Parthenon in Athens and wondered how a stone so smooth withstood centuries of war, weather, and life. Over the course of a few thousand years, marble has transformed from ancient building material into a signifier of fine taste in homes around the country

