In 1946, Harvard Law School paid $27.50 for a replica of the Magna Carta — or so the school thought. Turns out, the document, which was purchased for around $500 in today’s money, is actually an ...

British academics who identified the faded manuscript as an original hailed it as “one of the world’s most valuable documents ...

BOSTON, MA – Imagine stumbling upon a forgotten treasure in your attic, only to discover it’s a priceless artifact. That’s ...

Harvard Law School recently discovered a treasure that had been hiding in its library for decade. Two British academics say ...

UK experts A "copy" of the Magna Carta, the medieval English document that has formed the basis of constitutions around the world, owned by Harvard Law School is actually an exceedingly rare original, ...

Harvard University found out that a $27.50 old document in its library is actually a rare 1300 Magna Carta worth millions.

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

Two British academics discovered that a “copy” of the medieval text, held in Harvard Law School’s library for 80 years, is ...

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

The Harvard Magna Carta is thought to have been issued to the former parliamentary borough of Appleby in Westmorland, England ...

The document was consigned to the auction house in 1946 then, later the same year, purchased by Harvard Law School for just ...