A rare 710-year-old copy of the Magna Carta was sold at auction for $21.3 million by The Perot Foundation at Sotheby’s in New York, the auction house said on Tuesday. A rare 710-year-old copy of the ...

In an eleven-minute video, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has claimed credit for the Charlie Hebdo massacre, calling it “a new turning point in the history of confrontation.” The video also cited ...

The Magna Carta was signed on June 15, 1215, when King John met with the Barons at Runnymede, a meadow on the south bank of the River Thames, just outside London. It is considered one of the most ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Queen leads celebrations at Runnymede to commemorate the sealing of the document that is a cornerstone of parliamentary democracy Labour have joined the attacks on Cameron’s speech. The shadow ...

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British academics have discovered a lost Magna Carta from the year 1300 in the collection of the Harvard Law Library. David Carpenter, a medieval history professor at King’s College London, was ...

Standing modestly in a solitary field in Runnymede is a commemoration to a moment when Britain became great. The sealing of the Magna Carta – “the Great Charter of the Liberties” – 800 years ago today ...

The special week-long special exhibition, “Magna Carta 800: Sharing the Legacy of Freedom,” which just opened at the New-York Historical Society will give New Yorkers a rare chance to see an early ...

This year, a good TV quiz question would be, “This is the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta. True or False?” Contrary to what children are taught, the answer is false. Contestants ...

BOSTON (AP) — 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 ...