For thousands of years, Anatolian civilizations engraved their cultural, political, and societal structures on the cities, monuments, and roads that they created, with the marble they excavated in this land. Today, it is possible to understand the history of Anatolia by listening to what the marble is telling us, quietly.

In Anatolia marble, the real stone with the unequaled endurance to bring the past and present together and the stone that assumed the role of the record-keeper of history, started appearing in the structures in Anatolia in only the 7th and 8th centuries, B.C. It declared its sovereignty after 1050 B.C. White marble stone, over centuries, surpassed the traditional dark colored stones of the Bronze and Hittite periods, used in construction and sculpture. Its most intense usage was in the Hellenistic era and the period of the Roman Empire. Marble cities were built in the whole of Western Anatolia.