Inkpotamus

Old Sir Arthur Evans, on clay tablets, found some writing,
In the ruins of Knossos, which archaeologists thought exciting.
Linear B is what we call that script which Cretans scratched in clay,
Many thousand years ago, recording what they’d say.

An ancient Stone Age taxman,
Used tally-sticks for counting,
Each farmer’s tax in wheat and sheep,
And recording the amount in.