National Archives Conservators Reveal Previously Illegible Text in Magna Carta

Read the full July 20, 2011 press release about the  conservation treatment, re-encasement and public display of Magna Carta conducted by National Archives senior conservators Terry Boone and Morgan Zinsmeister. The project manager is supervisory conservator Catherine Nicholson.

A short documentary video produced by the National Archives chronicles the document’s conservation treatment during which ultra-violet photography revealed previously illegible writing in the text of the document that had been obliterated by water damage at some unknown time in the past.

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