1. Ashes2Art is an innovative interdisciplinary and collaborative concept that combines art history, archaeology, web design, 3D animation and digital panoramic photography to recreate monuments of the ancient past online. It focuses on a web-based, open-source presentation of its materials conducted by faculty and undergraduate students at Coastal Carolina University and Arkansas State University. The current stage of the program examines 4 th century BCE Delphi, Greece.

2. Professors Olsen, Gill and Flaten with students

3. Professors Flaten, Gill and Olsen with students at Olympia (above), Ephesus (upper right) and Knossos (right)

4. The tholos temple of Athena Pronaia, Marmaria, Delphi; from the North

5. Partial reconstruction and photograph of the tholos

6. Various angles of the reconstructed tholos

8. The tholos from above, South, showing the roof and entrance

9. Interior view of the tholos, looking South

11. Alternate reconstructions of the tholos roof, from the South

12. Reconstruction of the plunge bath from the East, in the gymnasium complex

13. Reconstruction of the plunge bath in the gymnasium complex

14. Reconstruction and photograph of the plunge bath from the South West (summer 2007)

15. In addition to digital models, flythroughs, QT panoramas, essays, high resolution photographs, primary and secondary source links, and extensive bibliographies that the project currently provides, Ashes2Art hopes to incorporate: A GIS database Online image database Laser scans of monuments, topography, and objects in the Delphi museum Online resource for vetting digital reconstruction projects and tools worldwide Websites: www.coastal.edu/ashes2art or www.clt.astate.edu/digitaldel phi/About.html www.coastal.edu/ashes2art www.clt.astate.edu/digitaldel phi/About.html