Harvard’s Magna Carta, Listed as ‘Unofficial’ for 80 Years, Turns Out to Be Real

A Magna Carta classified by Harvard as an unofficial copy for almost 80 years has been declared as an original issued by Edward I from 1300, the university has announced. The discovery means that there are now seven surviving copies of the first document to effectively establish that no English monarch was above the law.  According to the Guardian, the discovery was made by David Carpenter, a professor of medieval history at King’s College London, who examined the 1327 document via th