BOSTON, MA – Imagine stumbling upon a forgotten treasure in your attic, only to discover it’s a priceless artifact. That’s essentially what happened in the hallowed halls of Harvard Law School Library ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

What was believed to be a replica of the Magna Carta turned out to be an original. The document was bought by Harvard Law School in 1946 for $27.50. There are 24 surviving originals of the various ...

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 discovers its $27 “copy” of Magna Carta is a rare 1300 original, authenticated by British historians and linked to abolitionists. Decades ago, Harvard University purchased a stained and faded ...

What was thought to be a “copy” of the Magna Carta acquired by Harvard Law School in the 1940s has been discovered to be one of the rare originals from 1300, according to British researchers from King ...

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 ...