Finnbarr Webster/Getty A researcher just made an astonishing discovery in Harvard Law School’s historical collection — what the university thought was a cheap replica of the Magna Carta may ...

In 1946, Harvard University purchased what it believed to be a replica of the Magna Carta, the historic document signed by King John of England in 1215 that limited the power of the monarchy and ...

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 ...

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 ...

A manuscript purchased by Harvard University as a cheap, water-stained copy of the Magna Carta is, in fact, “one of the world’s most valuable documents,” a British researcher said Thursday.

Drafted in 1215 by the Archbishop of Canterbury on behalf of King John, the Magna Carta was intended to make ... what they thought was an unofficial replica - for $27.50 (£20.73) at auction.

It had been labeled as a 1327 copy of the Magna Carta, "somewhat rubbed and damp-stained," according to the archive's description. But Carpenter knew almost immediately when he opened the document ...

An original issue of the Magna Carta, which auctioneers mistakenly catalogued as a copy in the 1940s and sold for a “fairly derisory price”, has been identified. Harvard Law School Library in ...

The document had been sitting in the Harvard Law School library for decades after the university — which thought it was an replica ... cheap replica of the Magna Carta may actually be ...

The Magna Carta was first issued and sealed in 1215 by England’s King John, and it is the first known document to state that the king was not above the rule of law. It is considered one of the ...