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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 ...

Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: Two British scholars discovered that an innocuous Harvard Law School Library document was actually an original 1300 copy of the Magna Carta. Believed to be a ...

In 1946, the library of Harvard Law School purchased a tattered document for $27.50. Records described it as a “rubbed and damp-stained” copy of the Magna Carta, Britain’s 1215 charter that limited ...

A “copy” of Magna Carta bought decades ago by Harvard Law School for just $27.50 is now understood to be an extremely rare original from 1300, according to new research. British historians were able ...

LONDON — You can’t exactly call it a reunion — the four surviving original Magna Cartas had never before been in the same place. So the British Library called it a “unification event” Monday when the ...