Inquiries revealed that the Thirumangai Alwar bronze idol was purchased by the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford University in 1967, while the three other idols were traced to various museums across the ...

TRICHY: The Ashmolean Museum at the Oxford University in London has agreed to repatriate an idol of saint poet Thirumangai Alwar, stolen by idol smugglers from the Soundararaja Perumal Temple in ...

The Ashmolean Museum at Oxford University has agreed to repatriate the stolen Thirumangai Alwar idol to Tamil Nadu, India. The idol, illegally removed from the Soundararaja Perumal Temple decades ...