A rare original Magna Carta, misidentified and sold “for a fairly derisory price”, has been uncovered 80 years after it was wrongly catalogued. The remarkable discovery was made by Professor David ...

Harvard Law School bought a 1327 copy of the Magna Carta from legal book dealer Sweet & Maxwell for $27.50 in 1946. Nearly eight decades later, two researchers have discovered it's actually an ...

Harvard Law School’s ‘cheap copy’ of Magna Carta was shown to be an original - Harvard Law School/Lorin Granger A copy of Magna Carta bought by Harvard University for just $27 in the 1940s is an ...

Held within the hallowed halls of Parliament House lies a treasure: a 1297 issue of the Magna Carta. Australia's 1297 ...

In 1946, Harvard Law School paid $27.50 for a replica of the Magna Carta — or so the school thought. Turns out, the document, which was purchased for around $500 in today’s money, is actually an ...

Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: Two British scholars discovered that an innocuous Harvard Law School Library document was actually an original 1300 copy of the Magna Carta. Believed to be a ...

BOSTON — Harvard University for decades assumed it had a cheap copy of the Magna Carta in its collection, a stained and faded document it had purchased for less than $30. Harvard University for ...

The discovery that Harvard unknowingly had an original of the 1300 Magna Carta, the document that moved human history a small but significant step forward by obliging a monarch to respect the rights ...

An original copy of the Magna Carta has been discovered in a scrapbook in Kent, England. The tattered document dates back to 1300, 85 years after King John of England was compelled to sign the first ...

Two environmental activists targeted the original Magna Carta in the United Kingdom during a protest seeking to raise awareness of climate change. Rev. Sue Parfitt, 82, and Judy Bruce, 85, a retired ...