Abstract

In the Land of Mesopotamia 4,000 Years Ago
The story of architects who take on a daunting task commissioned by King Hammurabi—now complete!

In the 18th century BCE, in ancient Mesopotamia. Hammurabi, king of Babylon, had unified the entire land. To secure the eternal prosperity of his state, he ordered the construction of a “tower reaching the sun”—
Gaga, a court architect born into a family of warriors, finds the genius architect Nimrode—rumored to be a descendant of Noah—in the land of Dilmun and brings him back to Babylon, only to find the city transformed into a battlefield...
The fate of the Babylonian army, struggling against the attacks of the enemy’s massive war chariots, depends on the architects’ ability to discover the weak points of these machines through their unique perspective.
And after the war comes to an end, the construction of the “tower reaching the sun” finally begins…!!

Author’s Information

Architectural manga artist. Debuted in 2018 with Differentiation, Integration, and the End of the World from JIHEN.
While pursuing a drawing career, also studied architecture and, in 2019, studied abroad at Università IUAV di Venezia.
In addition to the ancient Near Eastern architecture manga The Architects of Babel, he publish architectural manga through his self-run hand-bound book label Youyoukousha.