On Friday two Harvard University researchers announced they had found a parchment copy of the declaration, only the second parchment manuscript copy known to exist besides the one kept in the National Archives in Washington DC. Professor Danielle Allen and researcher Emily Sneff presented their findings on the document, known as “The Sussex Declaration”, at a conference at Yale on Friday, and published initial research online. “I was just looking for copies of the Declaration of Independence in British archives,” Sneff told the Guardian. “The closer we looked at it there were just things that made it a clearly unique and mysterious document,” Sneff said. Allen and Sneff first tried to deduce when and where the manuscript was made by analyzing handwriting, spelling errors and parchment styles and preparation.

Source: The Guardian April 22, 2017 00:09 UTC