"The instant I saw it, I knew! Everything about the document looked right." In 1946, Harvard Law School bought a stained, ...

Harvard Law School Paid $27 for a 'Magna Carta' Copy in 1940. It Was Actually An Original Magna Carta is an important ...

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

An original version of the Magna Carta —considered one of the most important documents in all of history—was sitting ...

David Carpenter, a professor of medieval history at King's College London, was browsing Harvard Law School Library's online collections in December 2023 when he stumbled on something odd: a manuscript ...

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

Bad King John I was ineffective, unsuccessful, unlikeable and cruel…so why does he still have his defenders? And do they have ...

Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in places like Bustle, LAMag, and HelloGiggles. Spencer Grant/GHI/UCG/Universal ...

A rare and lost original of the Magna Carta which has been tucked away in a library for years could be worth millions of ...

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

The Magna Carta (Latin for “Great Charter”) is a landmark legal document first issued by King John of England in 1215 that established limits on the power of the monarchy. Today, it’s ...

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