To the American soldiers of the Revolutionary War, the standards had similar resonance to that of Roman eagles.

His father slept gods only knew where, not in the roadside tomb carved with a mantling Roman eagle rather than mourning figures.

The single-headed Roman imperial eagle continued to be used in Byzantium, although far more rarely.

The figure of a Roman eagle was at one time been visible, chiselled upon the pavement.

The recovery of Roman eagles taken as trophies by enemy forces sometimes inspired years of added warfare.

The flags featured the national tricolor (horizontal stripes, with red on top), over which was a Roman eagle with a cross in its beak.

A Roman eagle stands on the top of the column, and three wolf heads holding a ring in their mouths are visible on the sides.

Passing under the hated Roman eagle, ignoring its military talons the way the other pilgrims did, young Jesus would have witnessed those ceremonies.

Indeed, the early Byzantine Empire inherited the Roman eagle as an imperial symbol.

The ruins dated to the Roman era, as indicated by the carved stone reliefs of Roman eagles and other animals.