The Magna Carta was signed on June 15, 1215, at Runnymede Meadows near London. It was annulled just a few weeks later, and much of it focused on local administrative issues. Why is it seen as ...

On this day in 2015, a unique 1216 edition of the Magna Carta went on display in the North-East for the first time in its 799-year history.

President Donald Trump is facing sharp criticism over his sweeping, multi-front attack on the U.S. Court of International Trade, an influential conservative legal activist who shaped his first-term ...

In contrast, a Magna Carta sold by Sotheby’s in New York in 2007 fetched over $21 million. Professor Carpenter, working alongside Nicholas Vincent of the University of East Anglia, explained the ...

British researchers have authenticated a rare version of the Magna Carta at Harvard Law School, highlighting its importance as a cornerstone of constitutional history.

725-year-old Magna Carta found after 80 years at Harvard, bought for $27 as a fake Historians used spectral imaging to authenticate the document, now recognized as one of only seven surviving copies.

The Harvard Law School library bought a copy of the Magna Carta in 1946 for $27.50. It's now likely worth millions of dollars.

Tucked among a trove of medieval documents was Harvard Law School Manuscript 172, identified as a copy of the Magna Carta purchased in 1946.

A manuscript purchased by Harvard University for less than $30 as a water-stained copy of the Magna Carta is, in fact, an extremely rare document from 1300.

In 1946, Harvard Law School purchased an early copy of the Magna Carta for $27.50. Even adjusting to about $451 in today’s valuation, the historic document described as “somewhat rubbed and ...

A manuscript once considered an unofficial “copy” of the Magna Carta is now believed to be a genuine version and ‘‘one of the world’s most valuable documents’’, according to UK academics ...