"Whatcha got?"

     Walt replied into his headset radio, "I got a scroll."

     "Put the lid back on. We'll take it back to the lab."

     "How 'bout the bones?  And, there's a bunch of other artifacts."

     "Like what?"

     "Stacks of - looks like clay jars, stacked piles of animal skins and what looks like . . . 

dried figs."

     "Alright. Just leave everything else behind. Bring up the scroll. We'll get back in the morning."

     Walt took a last backward toward the mouth of the cave some 200 feet to the outside desert air momentarily considering sorting through the artifacts. He felt like Lord Carnarvon, whose discovery of King Tut's Tomb lit up the modern world.

     He resisted the urge, grabbed the clay containing the scroll and backed himself off for the topside. The reddish dust irritated his nostrils and skin almost as much as the pallid heat. 

     He emerged at the top of the Israeli desert with the his cargo secured between the side of his torso and inner arm. In the other he carried his LED torch. 

     He was greeted by Jensen Amos, head of archeological digs. "Let's see whatcha got."

     Walt lifted the lid off the clay pot."I got the scroll."

     "Put the lid back on. We'll take it back to the lab."

     "How 'bout the bones?"

     "Are they human?"

     "Yep. I think we need a security team to stand guard against grave robbers."

     Several weeks later the two men met for coffee in Tel Aviv.

     "So what have the translators come up with?"

     "They've managed to unroll one of the scrolls. Get this - there's lines alluding to a garden . . ."

     Walt hesitated, took a sip of coffee and peered at his colleague.

     "And?"

     "Yeah. I read it myself. Eden. And the script continues, with reference to an Eve, . . . and well, . . ."

     "Adam and Eve."

     "Adam apologizes to God for believing in the words of a winged serpent. He writes about his quarrels with Eve and begs God to let him back into a garden."

     "Impressive find but it's not newsworthy - the public craves news -sports. Anything in the script about Satan playing ball?"