British Iron Age ‘king’ who prompted Roman invasion was probably a woman

New Scientist5 November 2026, 00:00 UTCUnited Kingdom

Verica, a British ruler who encouraged the Roman emperor Claudius to launch an invasion, may not have been the man historians thought he was

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