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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 £4.5m property is your chance to own a piece of history – as it is located on the island where Magna Carta was ...

May 15 (Reuters) - Harvard’s law school library paid $27.50 in 1946 to acquire what was billed as a “somewhat rubbed and damp-stained” copy of the Magna Carta from 1327 to add to its robust collection ...