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Just days after four Magna Cartas were united for the first time in 800 years at the British Library in London, another ancient version of the document has been discovered by chance in a medieval ...

Galileo continued writing in conversational language for his landmark 1632 work, Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del ...

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 A.D. and worth quite a bit more. Why it matters: The document has been ...

A "copy" of the Magna Carta, purchased by Harvard Law School in 1946, has been authenticated by British researchers, marking a significant historical discovery of the rare document.

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 ...

An original copy of the Magna Carta has sat in Harvard Law School’s library for decades without anyone realizing it. Since 1946, the university thought it only had a copy of the medieval ...

Its tattered and faded copy of the Magna Carta is worth millions of dollars, David Carpenter, a professor of medieval history at King’s College London, estimated — though Harvard has no plans ...

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 from 1327 to add to its robust collection of ...

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.

The Magna Carta is the royal charter of rights agreed in 1215 under King John. It was the first document to confirm the rights of ordinary people under common law.

BOSTON (AP) — 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.