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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

British academics have discovered a lost Magna Carta from the year 1300 in the collection of the Harvard Law Library. David Carpenter, a medieval history professor at King’s College London ...

Today, it is worth millions of dollars. The Magna Carta, originally signed in 1215 by King John of England, is widely regarded as the foundation of constitutional governance and the rule of law.