An original copy of the Magna Carta has been found in a Harvard University library, stunning British academics who hailed the school’s previously perceived imitation as “one of the world’s most ...

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 David ...

Harvard had an Antiques Roadshow moment when a professor discovered that an original copy of the Magna Carta was worth millions. Reading time 2 minutes In 1946, Harvard purchased what they believed to ...

The Magna Carta, or “Great Charter” — to which England’s King John affixed his seal June 15, 1215, 810 years ago Sunday — was essentially a peace treaty that was intended to end a civil war between ...