A “copy” of Magna Carta bought decades ago by Harvard Law School for just $27.50 is now understood to be an extremely rare ...

In 1946, Harvard Law School purchased an early copy of the Magna Carta for $27.50. Even adjusting to about $451 in today’s ...

Harvard University for decades assumed it had a cheap copy of the Magna Carta in its collection, a stained and faded document ...

Harvard Law School bought what it thought was a copy of the Magna Carta in 1946 for $27.50 — but it's a real one from 1300 ...

An original copy of the Magna Carta has sat in Harvard Law School’s library for decades without anyone realizing it. Since ...

A manuscript purchased by Harvard University for less than $30 as a water-stained copy of the Magna Carta is, in fact, an ...

Harvard Law School’s Magna Carta revealed as an original, the school bought a 1327 copy of the Magna Carta from legal book ...

A pair of U.K. scholars discovered the mislabeled document in Harvard Law School’s digital archives. The university bought it ...

Harvard’s law school library paid $27.50 in 1946 to acquire what was billed as a “somewhat rubbed and damp-stained” copy of ...

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

Imagine you bring along to the Antiques Roadshow a scuffed piece of parchment covered in writing in Latin so faded that you ...

A rare Magna Carta document at Harvard Law School, misidentified for 80 years, has been confirmed as an original from 1300 by ...