This previously overlooked Magna Carta belonging to the Sandwich Town Council was discovered in archives in Kent. (Kent County Council) An original copy of the Magna Carta has been discovered in a ...

Just days after four Magna Cartas were united for the first time in 800 years at the British Library in London, another ancient version of the document has been discovered by chance in a medieval ...

A close-up of the Magna Carta, written in Medieval Latin. The Magna Carta charter, written in 1215, required that the king of England, King John, cede absolute power. Four copies of the document were ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...