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‘Incredibly rare’ discovery reveals bedbugs came to Britain with the Romans
(www.theguardian.com)
This is just more propaganda from the People's Front of Judea.
this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2024
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That's just what the Judean People's Front would say!
Splitters!!!
What has the Romans ever done for us!
Romanes eunt domus!
Bed bugs eunt domus!
Romani ite domum
NOT DATIVE!!!!!
Good now write it out a hundred times or I'll cut your balls off
Roads?
Yes so the bed bugs can walk to Britannia
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There is not one of us here who would not gladly suffer death to rid this country of the Romans once and for all.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Dr Andrew Birley, who heads the Vindolanda archaeological team, said: “It is incredibly rare to find them in any ancient context.”
The discovery was made by Katie Wyse Jackson 24, a University College Dublin (UCD) student working on the excavated material as part of her research masters in archaeoentomology, the study of insects at archaeological sites.
Focusing on one of Vindolanda’s lowest layers, which dates to around AD100, she recovered two thoraces believed to have come from the common bedbug known by its Latin name, Cimex lectularius.
Noting that Pliny, the Roman philosopher, wrote of the medicinal value of bedbugs in the treatment of certain ailments, such as ear infections, she added: “People then had all sorts of notions of what insects could do.”
The specialist team included Dr Stephen Davis, a lecturer in environmental archaeology at UCD.
In analysing soil samples, she has also found beetles that can give further insights: “I can learn about trade, food storage, hygiene, waste disposal from what species are present and in what numbers.
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“We Roman’s brought you civilization! You barbarians didn’t even know about baths until we told you. And now this? You blame us for a few harmless bugs? They are practically pets!”
Thanks Caesar