Katie Wyse Jackson, a British student, managed to exhume the remains of bedbugs at a Roman archaeological site in Great Britain. According to the hypothesis proposed by this team of researchers, the insects would have traveled from Rome to the British Isles on beds of straw.
In this way, pests would have multiplied in the four corners of Europe, according to the multiple Roman conquests. The Romans were also perfectly aware of these small insects, whose reputation was much less disastrous than today.