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Harvard University for decades assumed it had ... a rare version from 1300 issued by Britain's King Edward I. The original Magna Carta established in 1215 the principle that the king is subject ...
Nearly eight decades later, two researchers have discovered it's actually an original version. On May 15, Harvard announced that two British researchers discovered the school's copy is one of the ...
The text had to be correct,” he said. Harvard’s Magna Carta is now the seventh original known to still exist. Credit: Harvard Law School After reviewing additional historical accounts about ...
A Magna Carta at Harvard Law School, once thought a copy, is a rare original. British experts confirmed its authenticity. It is one of seven surviving versions from King Edward I in 1300.
BOSTON — Harvard University for decades assumed it ... a rare version from 1300 issued by Britain's King Edward I The original Magna Carta established in 1215 the principle that the king is ...
The discovery that Harvard unknowingly had an original of the 1300 Magna Carta, the document that moved human history a small but significant step forward by obliging a monarch to respect the ...
BOSTON — Harvard University for decades assumed it ... a rare version from 1300 issued by Britain’s King Edward I. The original Magna Carta established in 1215 the principle that the king ...
A “copy” of Magna Carta bought decades ago by Harvard Law School for just $27.50 is now understood to be an extremely rare original from 1300, according to new research. British historians ...
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.