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A Historian Pulled an Old Document Out of Storage—and Discovered an Original Magna Carta
An original version of the Magna Carta —considered one of the most important documents in all of history—was sitting ...
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Harvard Bought This Stained Copy of the Magna Carta for $27.50. It Turned Out to Be an Original
Issued by Edward I in 1300, this version of the historic text is one of only seven known surviving copies. It's been hiding ...
Harvard thought its faded Magna Carta was a cheap copy. It’s actually more than 700 years old
BOSTON (AP) — Harvard University for decades assumed it had a cheap copy of the Magna Carta in its collection, a stained and ...
$27 copy of Magna Carta turns out to be the real thing
An original copy of the Magna Carta has been discovered hiding in the archives of Harvard University, and the British ...
Magna Carta Copy Harvard Bought For $27 Is Determined To Be Authentic
British academics who identified the faded manuscript as an original hailed it as “one of the world’s most valuable documents ...
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725-year-old Magna Carta found after 80 years at Harvard, bought for $27 as a fake
According to Harvard’s library records, the document was bought in 1946 for just $27.50. Before that, an RAF veteran had sold ...
Magna Carta ‘copy’ bought for $27.50 now believed to be genuine
The Harvard Magna Carta is thought to have been issued to the former parliamentary borough of Appleby in Westmorland, England ...
Harvard Discovers $27 Magna Carta ‘Copy’ Is A 700-Year-Old Original Worth Tens Of Millions
The Magna Carta was a landmark legal document responsible for shifting the balance of power away from the kings who had spent ...
Harvard bought a copy of the Magna Carta for $27.50. It's actually rare and likely worth millions.
The Harvard Law School library bought a copy of the Magna Carta in 1946 for $27.50. It's now likely worth millions of dollars.