A pair of U.K. scholars discovered the mislabeled document in Harvard Law School's digital archives. The university bought it for just $27.50 in 1946. It turned out to be an authentic copy dating ...

A pair of U.K. scholars discovered the mislabeled document in Harvard Law School's digital archives. The university bought it for just $27.50 in 1946. It turned out to be an authentic copy dating ...

Harvard’s stained copy of the Magna Carta is worth millions of dollars, Carpenter estimates. In 2007, an original 1297 version of the document was sold at auction in New York City for $21.3 million.

Two British academics discovered that a “copy” of the medieval text, held in Harvard Law School’s library for 80 years, is one of seven originals dating from 1300.

In an extraordinary revelation, researchers have confirmed that a document owned by Harvard Law School, long thought to be a mere copy of the Magna Carta, is in fact an exceedingly rare original ...

Its copy of the Magna Carta is worth millions of dollars, Carpenter estimated — though Harvard has no plans to sell it. A 1297 version of the Magna Carta sold at auction in 2007 for $21.3 million.

Two British academics say that a copy of the Magna Carta in the Ivy League university’s possession is the real deal. The school bought the copy in 1946 from a London bookseller for $27.50 ...

The New England school said it purchased the roughly 700-year-old document in 1946 for $27.50 (approximately $500 today) at auction. The auctioneer, who obtained it through a London bookseller who ...