LONDON — Britain is this month celebrating the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, a document more than three times as old as the United States that established many principles of Western democracy. But ...

WASHINGTON – 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 English ...

Police have arrested a man who tried to steal a document more than eight centuries old which is considered to be a building block of democracy of the United States. The best preserved of the four ...

Boston — 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 ...

A close-up of the Magna Carta, written in Medieval Latin. The Magna Carta charter, written in 1215, required that the king of England, King John, cede absolute power. Four copies of the document were ...

The British Library is now showing original manuscripts of the U.S. Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights, the first time they've come to the United Kingdom. But those documents are not ...

Police in Salisbury, England, have arrested a man who, they say, tried to steal the Magna Carta — the 1215 document that established basic tenets of the rule of law. "The Magna Carta has not been ...

British police arrested a 45-year-old man and accused him of attempting to steal the Magna Carta from a cathedral. According to Wiltshire Police, alarms went off at Salisbury Cathedral in England ...

For centuries the Magna Carta, or "Great Charter," has been held up as an enduring symbol of freedom and democracy. It was signed, or more accurately sealed, by England's King John on June 15, 1215, ...

The small English cathedral city of Salisbury at the center of an international investigation into the Novichok poisonings is once again in the spotlight. A 45-year-old man was arrested Thursday for ...