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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LONDON — Just days after four Magna Cartas ...

Kent County Council archivist Dr. Mark Bateson with the Sandwich Magna Carta (all images courtesy Kent County Council) Imagine holding a copy of the Magna Carta, folding it up, and forgetting about it ...

Four framed copies of the Magna Carta — the founding document that laid the groundwork for long-established governing principles — were brought together for the first time at the British Library in ...

An original copy of the Magna Carta has been discovered in a scrapbook in Kent, England. The tattered document dates back to 1300, 85 years after King John of England was compelled to sign the first ...

A detail of one of four known existing originals of the 1297 version of the Magna Carta. Stefan Zaklin/epa/Corbis Back in the late 1800s, an official from the British Museum placed a tattered copy of ...

An original copy of the Magna Carta has been discovered in a scrapbook in Kent, England. The tattered document dates back to 1300, 85 years after King John of England was compelled to sign the first ...

The Salisbury Cathedral copy of the Magna Carta is viewed by archivists before being displayed alongside the other three surviving original parchment engrossments of the Magna Carta, as they are ...