Discovery

Two people knelt to brush the desert sand.
The atmosphere within the dig was tense
as everything these scientists had planned
was shown to be correct. It was immense.

As dusk drew near they knew they must commence
to pack their tools and wondrous find away;
it might take years to make some kind of sense
from ancient carvings they had found today.

How many thousand years ago this clay
based slab was made! One man returned to camp,
but one, with burning zeal, turned back to play
a secret game: and knelt beside his lamp.

He'd be the first to read, and he'd have pride of place!
And in the clay, inscribed, he found a smiley face.