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's law school library bought this document in 1946 for $27.50, thinking it was a copy of the Magna Carta from 1327. :: King’s College London :: University of East Anglia But British researchers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scholars for decades believed Harvard's document was a copy written in 1327. In 1946, Harvard Law School purchased an early copy ...

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 ...

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. But two researchers have concluded it ...

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 ...

An original copy of the Magna Carta has been found in a Harvard University library, stunning British academics who hailed the school’s previously perceived imitation as “one of the world’s most ...

An elderly priest and a retired teacher smashed a glass display case holding an original copy of the Magna Carta in a protest over British government inaction on climate change. Rev. Dr. Sue Parfitt, ...

In 1946, the library of Harvard Law School purchased a tattered document for $27.50. Records described it as a “rubbed and damp-stained” copy of the Magna Carta, Britain’s 1215 charter that limited ...