A document bought for just $27.50 has turned out to be a rare and extremely valuable version of Magna Carta which was bought for less than $30 in 1946 -- and it's been sitting unnoticed in Harvard Law ...

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 ...

A "copy" of the famous document known as a symbol against tyranny and as a "cornerstone of freedom" has been discovered to be authentic. Harvard Law School in 1946 bought a "copy" of the Magna Carta ...

Kent County Council archivist Dr. Mark Bateson with the Sandwich Magna Carta (all images courtesy Kent County Council) Imagine holding a copy of the Magna Carta, folding it up, and forgetting about it ...

Police in Salisbury, England, have arrested a man who, they say, tried to steal the Magna Carta — the 1215 document that established basic tenets of the rule of law. "The Magna Carta has not been ...

Police have arrested a man who tried to steal a document more than eight centuries old which is considered to be a building block of democracy of the United States. The best preserved of the four ...