Doha (AFP)
Al-Gharafa Club, third in the Qatari Football League, announced the signing of Real Madrid and Spain national team striker Joselu.
The club said in a post on its official website on the X platform (formerly Twitter), “Officially, Joselu, the Spanish international joins the (Panthers),” without revealing the duration of the contract or any financial details.
Real Madrid, who won the Champions League, published a picture of the player Joselu on its official website on the X platform and accompanied it with the phrase “Thank you.”
Joselu is on the Spanish national team’s roster participating in the European Cup currently being held in Germany, where La Roja will meet Georgia on Sunday in the 16th final.
Joselu, 34, began his football career with Celta Vigo, and moved to Real Madrid for the first time in the 2011-2012 season, before playing for several German clubs such as Hoffenheim, Eintracht Frankfurt and Hannover, then he played in England with Stoke City and Newcastle.
The striker returned to Spain in 2019 through Alaves, before moving to Espanyol, and from there to Real Madrid at the beginning of last season.
Al Gharafa finished the last edition of the league in third place, securing a seat in the AFC Champions League play-off for the elite, the first edition of which will start next season with the participation of the best 24 teams in the continent.
Al-Gharafa also reached the semi-finals of the Emir Cup, before losing to Qatar 3-4 on penalties (2-2), which is the same round from which it was eliminated in the Qatar Cup by Al Rayyan 0-1.
Al-Gharafa announced that its preparatory camp for the new season will be held in Slovakia during the period from July 16 to August 1.
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The original occupant of an Egyptian sarcophagus was unknown. Then a tiny ornament revealed a very big name
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A sarcophagus discovered in 2009 in an Egyptian burial chamber came with a complicated history: Ancient writing on the stone container showed that it had been used twice, but while its second occupant, the 21st dynasty high priest Menkheperre, was known, the first owner had remained a mystery — until now.
New clues have surfaced as a result of Frederic Payraudeau, an associate professor in Egyptology at Sorbonne University in Paris, reexamining a fragment of the granite sarcophagus and deciphering the hieroglyphs engraved on it. Tucked away in the cartouche, an oval-shaped ornament often found in tombs, he found a name of a very recognizable figure: Ramesses II.
Payraudeau said the inscription is evidence that the artifact was originally from the tomb of the famous pharaoh and had been reused after looting.
“Clearly, this was the sarcophagus of a king,” Payraudeau said. “The cartouche dates back to its first usage, and contains Ramesses II’s throne name, Usermaatra. He was the only pharaoh to use this name during his time, so that cleared any doubt that it was his sarcophagus.”
The findings, published in the journal Revue d’Egyptologie, add to the lore of Ramesses II, also known as Ozymandias and one of Egypt’s most celebrated pharaohs. It also fills a gap in our understanding of how sarcophagi were used to entomb kings.
Ramesses II was the third king of the 19th dynasty, and his reign — from 1279 to 1213 BC — was the second longest in the history of Egypt. He was known for his victorious military campaigns and an interest in architecture, which led him to order up important monuments and statues of himself. His mummy is at the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Cairo.
Another coffin belonging to Ramesses II was discovered in 1881 near Luxor, but the sarcophagus fragment analyzed in the study was found in Abydos, a city about 40 miles (64 kilometers) to the northwest in a straight line.
“That is less bizarre than it seems,” Payraudeau said, “because we know his tomb was looted in the antiquity, maybe two centuries after his death, and he’s certainly not the only king to have been looted.”
The granite fragment, which is a nearly complete part of the longer side of the sarcophagus, was previously believed to have belonged to a prince. “But I always found this strange, because the decoration on this carefully crafted piece was indicative of a king, and had elements traditionally reserved for kings,” Payraudeau said.