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.But two researchers have concluded it ...

LONDON — Britain is this month celebrating the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, a document more than three times as old as the United States that established many principles of Western democracy. But ...

Using ultraviolet light, British Library scientists were able to photograph the text of the 1215 Burnt Magna Carta that is invisible to the human eye. More than 280 years after it was damaged in a ...

The British Library is now showing original manuscripts of the U.S. Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights, the first time they've come to the United Kingdom. But those documents are not ...

Police have arrested a man who tried to steal a document more than eight centuries old which is considered to be a building block of democracy of the United States. The best preserved of the four ...

British police arrested a 45-year-old man and accused him of attempting to steal the Magna Carta from a cathedral. According to Wiltshire Police, alarms went off at Salisbury Cathedral in England ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A rare 710-year-old copy of the Magna Carta, among the most important historical documents ever to hit the auction block, sold for $21.3 million on Tuesday at Sotheby's. Sign up ...

More than 280 years after it was damaged in a fire, one of the original copies of the Magna Carta is legible again. Written in 1215, the Magna Carta required the king of England King John to cede ...