British historians were able to verify the document’s true authenticity after an academic stumbled across the item while looking through Harvard Law School’s online archives.
Shocked by his discovery, the academic said he quickly contacted Nicholas Vincent, a professor of medieval history at the University of East Anglia and a fellow “Magna Carta pundit.”
Magna Carta (Great Charter) is often regarded as the earliest declaration of human rights, credited with enshrining the rights of man in English law.
According to the United Kingdom’s Parliament website, the charter was the first “to put into writing the principle that the king and his government was not above the law.”
Today, it is revered around the world as the document that established the principle that everyone – including the monarch – was subject to the rule of law.
The academics believe that the Harvard document is one of just seven from King Edward I’s 1300 issue of Magna Carta that still survive.
Source: https://edition.cnn.com
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