Syrian province of Raqqa, prehistoric Mesopotamia. The site of Tell Sabi Abyad, a village of about one hectare, was founded. It was destroyed by fire, baking the mud walls and clay objects, which have thus been preserved to this day. There were central warehouses for goods, granaries, storehouses, and complex administrative tools for monitoring the storehouses’ contents, including financial archives. Even without writing (which arrived three thousand years later), geometric clay tokens were used.
