Harvard's law school library bought this document in 1946 for $27.50, thinking it was a copy of the Magna Carta from 1327. :: King’s College London :: University of East Anglia But British researchers ...

Police in Salisbury, England, have arrested a man who, they say, tried to steal the Magna Carta — the 1215 document that established basic tenets of the rule of law. "The Magna Carta has not been ...

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 ...

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 ...

Boston — 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 ...

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 ...

In 2012, David Cameron spent an excruciatingly long two minutes discussing the Magna Carta with David Letterman. The British prime minister struggled to name the location where the iconic English ...

Jay-Z has received praise for using his music to promote the original Magna Carta document through the title of his brand new album, with the Dean of Salisbury admitting that she is “delighted” by the ...

This stunning $5.9 million property is your chance to own a piece of history - as it is located on the island where Magna Carta was signed. Six-bedroom Magna Carta House was built by George Simon ...