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 ...

A faded “copy” of the royal Magna Carta manuscript that Harvard University paid just $27.50 for is actually an ultra-rare original from the 14th century — likely worth nearly a million times that ...

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 Law School recently discovered a treasure that had been hiding in its library for decade. Two British academics say that a copy of the Magna Carta in the Ivy League university’s possession is ...

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 copy from 1327 when it was purchased for ...

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 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, ...