11.   Lecter spends his days sipping espresso, perusing ancient manuscripts and strolling like a latter-day Medici through the packed streets.

12.   Like a hard-nosed detective, Stanford spent countless hours combing through ancient Vatican manuscripts in several European libraries to try to corroborate the story of Joan.

13.   Police have seized a cache of Pharaonic and Greco-Roman statues and ancient Islamic manuscripts believed to have been stolen by an Antiquities Authority guard for sale to private collectors.

14.   Each one must have the same words in the same order as the ancient manuscript and has to be restarted if an error is made.

15.   Police have arrested three people and recovered a cache of Pharaonic and Greco-Roman statues and ancient Islamic manuscripts believed to have been stolen by a warehouse guard.

16.   Several dozen college students picketed two major museums in the former Soviet republic Friday to protest a planned U.S. museum tour of ancient Georgian manuscripts and icons.

17.   Technology is helping monks preserve ancient manuscripts, he said.

18.   The Israeli government has released an animated computer disc on the Dead Sea Scrolls, the ancient manuscripts that have captured the imagination of Bible scholars.

19.   Those ancient manuscripts include poetry, legal texts and the earliest known sections of the Old Testament.

20.   What do you get when you mix a self-proclaimed rabbi, a shoemaker, a group of monks and a handful of ancient manuscripts?