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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 ...
A Magna Carta copy that was bought for just £7 is now believed to be a genuine version and is considered “one of the world’s most valuable documents”, UK academics have said. Harvard Law School ...
An issue of the Magna Carta, which was wrongly catalogued as a copy in the 1940s, has been identified as original. Harvard Law School Library bought what it thought was a stained and faded copy of ...
A rare and lost original of the Magna Carta which has been tucked away in a library for years could be worth millions of pounds. The manuscript was one believed to be an unofficial “copy”, yet ...
For 80 years, Harvard Law School believed the Magna Carta it bought for $27.50 was a reproduction. Now, British researchers think the document is a genuine version—one of a few still in existence.
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 David ...
In a fiery sermon at Islamabad’s Lal Masjid, Abdul Aziz Ghazi, a controversial cleric, launched a scathing attack on the Pakistani government, claiming that a war with India would not be an ...
1 of the Constitution,” he said. Petitioners added that: “We are afraid that the unequal provisions of the Magna Carta law will also be imposed on all land-based workers soon. We support this ...