A Magna Carta document, long thought to be an unofficial copy, has been confirmed as an original version dating back to 1300.

Issued by Edward I in 1300, this version of the historic text is one of only seven known surviving copies. It's been hiding ...

The original Magna Carta established in 1215 the principle that the king is subject to law. It formed the basis of ...

An original version of the Magna Carta —considered one of the most important documents in all of history—was sitting ...

The Magna Carta was a landmark legal document responsible for shifting the balance of power away from the kings who had spent ...

The Harvard Magna Carta is thought to have been issued to the former parliamentary borough of Appleby in Westmorland, England ...

Harvard Law School recently discovered a treasure that had been hiding in its library for decade. Two British academics say ...

David Carpenter, a professor of medieval history at King's College London, was browsing Harvard Law School Library's online collections in December 2023 when he stumbled on something odd: a manuscript ...

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.

At a moment when Harvard is battling the Trump administration, a scholar who helped discover the charter said it was an ...

The original Magna Carta established in 1215 the principle ... it was astonishment that Harvard had been sitting on it for all these years without realizing what it was.” Carpenter teamed ...