In 1297, King Edward I’s war against Scotland was not going so well. To assuage his dissatisfied nobles and persuade them to finance the battle against William Wallace (of “Braveheart” fame), the ...

NEW YORK — The Magna Carta is going on the auction block. About 17 copies exist of the document, which Sotheby's vice chairman David Redden calls "the most important document in the world." A copy, ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Harvard Law School recently discovered a treasure that had been hiding in its library for decade. Two ...

Plans to have historic 1297 edition back on display in Canberra by the end of next year have been revealed Australia’s 1297 edition of Magna Carta, bought in 1952 for £12,500, is now worth $35m. The ...

The Magna Carta helped form the foundation for modern English and U.S. law. Now one of two copies known to exist outside England is headed for a special new case to preserve it. The very first Magna ...

David Rubenstein, 65, the Baltimore-born co-founder of the private-equity firm the Carlyle Group, practices what he calls patriotic philanthropy. Among his efforts: buying an original 1297 Magna Carta ...

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You often hear about the Framers of the Constitution, but not so much the framers of the Magna Carta. They work for the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Not the authors, of ...

WASHINGTONWASHINGTON — A 715-year old copy of Magna Carta will soon return to public view at the National Archives after a conservation effort removed old patches and repaired weak spots in the ...

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 ...