Want to dig into the drama behind Magna Carta? HistoryExtra’s Emily Briffett gathers together a shelf of essential reads to explore the crisis of King John’s reign, what was really hammered out at ...

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 an extraordinary revelation, researchers have confirmed that a document owned by Harvard Law School, long thought to be a mere copy of the Magna Carta, is in fact an exceedingly rare original from ...

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 ...

BOSTON (AP) — 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 ...

The discovery that Harvard unknowingly had an original of the 1300 Magna Carta, the document that moved human history a small but significant step forward by obliging a monarch to respect the rights ...

London: If you're ever asked at a quiz night, "when and where did King John sign the Magna Carta", there are two possible answers.

Harvard discovers its $27 “copy” of Magna Carta is a rare 1300 original, authenticated by British historians and linked to abolitionists. Decades ago, Harvard University purchased a stained and faded ...