D.G. Hogarth was a British archaeologist and scholar From 
1909 until his death in 1927 he was the keeper of the 
Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and was one of the effective names who had worked with T.E. Lawrence as a part of the famous 'Arap Plan' during The First World War. 

The Ancient East published in 1914 throws light on the 
forgotten civilizations of Asia Minor. In this overview of the 
Ancient East from the 2nd millennium B.C. Hogarth 
describes this geographical area in five regions: Asia Minor Armenia and Mesopotamia Iran Syria and the south of the Arabia Peninsule.