Ancient monuments from Syria, Palestine, and West Arabia presented in 100 black-and-white plates with descriptive text. Published in 1918 on the orders of Ahmed Djemal Pasha. Ahmet Cemal, known as Cemal Pasha, was a Young Turk nationalist, general (Pasha), and a leading government official of the Ottoman Empire. In order to stabilize the military and political situation in the face of the looming British expansion in Palestine, Syria, Arabia, and Mesopotamia, Cemal Bey took office as the Governor-General of Baghdad in 1911. As the military commander and Governor-General of Syria (Damascus), Cemal was co-responsible for the genocide of Armenians ordered by the Young Turk government in 1915, which involved the forced deportation of large parts of the Armenian population.