{"id":95376,"date":"2026-03-04T22:37:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T22:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/oxford-museum-set-to-return-500-year-old-bronze-statue-taken-from-tamil-nadu-temple\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T22:37:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T22:37:44","slug":"oxford-museum-set-to-return-500-year-old-bronze-statue-taken-from-tamil-nadu-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/oxford-museum-set-to-return-500-year-old-bronze-statue-taken-from-tamil-nadu-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford museum set to return 500-year-old bronze statue taken from Tamil Nadu temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 16th-century bronze statue of Saint Tirumankai Alvar, taken from a Tamil Nadu temple, is returning to India from the UK. Acquired by the Ashmolean Museum in 1967, its provenance became questionable after a 2019 discovery. Following an investigation and a formal claim by India, the museum has agreed to its repatriation, highlighting a commitment to ethical collections.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 16th-century bronze statue of Saint Tirumankai Alvar, taken from a Tamil Nadu temple, is returning to India from the UK. Acquired by the Ashmolean Museum in 1967, its provenance became questionable after a 2019 discovery. Following an investigation and a formal claim by India, the museum has agreed to its repatriation, highlighting a commitment&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/oxford-museum-set-to-return-500-year-old-bronze-statue-taken-from-tamil-nadu-temple\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oxford museum set to return 500-year-old bronze statue taken from Tamil Nadu temple<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":95377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}