Parchment Declaration of Independence found.

[tb-av]

An extremely rare copy of the Declaration of Independence has been found in an obscure records office in southern England.

The National Archives in Washington has the only other parchment document like it, say Harvard researchers Emily Sneff and Danielle Allen.

They uncovered the copy at the West Sussex Records Office, in Chichester, England.

The Sussex archive listed the document as “manuscript copy, on parchment, of the Declaration in Congress of the thirteen United States of America,” in its online catalog.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/rar...D=ansmsnnews11

[AKDoug]

Very cool.. I'm currently reading "American Scripture:Making the Declaration of Independence" by Pauline Maier. She touches on the difficulties of preserving the documents.

[LowSpeed_HighDrag]

Nicolas Cage is rolling in his grave right now.

[Sensei]

Nicolas Cage is rolling in his grave right now.

Hmmm, he's not dead yet.

[ggammell]

Hmmm, he's not dead yet.

Not in the actual sense. No. But in the actors to be taken seriously sense....

[_Stormin_]

I read about this and though it was one of the coolest things that I had heard in some time. A second parchment copy that nobody had really "known" about for about 200 years. It makes you wonder if there are more out there.