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 Law School bought a 1327 copy of the Magna Carta from legal book dealer Sweet & Maxwell for $27.50 in 1946. Nearly eight decades later, two researchers have discovered it's actually an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scholars for decades believed Harvard's document was a copy written in 1327. In 1946, Harvard Law School purchased an early copy ...

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 ...

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 ...

A document bought for just $27.50 has turned out to be a rare and extremely valuable version of Magna Carta which was bought for less than $30 in 1946 -- and it's been sitting unnoticed in Harvard Law ...