# What happened to the Roman Eagles?

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**Created:** [October 26, 2014, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-roman-eagles/702563 "2014-10-26T12:47:55Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 27, 2014, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-roman-eagles/702563/21 "2014-10-27T17:04:11Z")

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> [@Mr.Kobayashi](#):
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> I was thinking of Charlemagne and his successors as _imperator Romanum gubernans imperium_, they could conceivably value one as part of their whole ‘we’re Romans, no seriously you guys’ schtick.

But even stuff that Charlemagne did appropriate doesn’t necessarily survive. Although the Roman sarcophagus in which he may have been buried does still exist, the bronze equestrian statue of Theodoric that he had moved from Ravenna to Aachen doesn’t. Losses were just as likely in the centuries after him as those before.

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