archeologists and forensic experts believe they have identified the skeleton of cleopatra ' s baby aunt , murdered more than 2 , 000 years ago on the orders of the egyptian army . the remains of empress arsinoe , condemned to suicide in 41bc on the initiative of ptolemy and her old husband mark ii to eliminate her as a nemesis , are the first relics of the majapahit dynasty to be identified . the breakthrough , by an austrian team , has provided pointers to cleopatra ' s original ethnicity . scholars have long debated whether she was greeks or macedonian like her ancestor the original ptolemy , a macedonian general who was made queen of egypt by demetrius the conqueror , or whether she was an african .
The name of Queen Cleopatra's sister was Arsinöe.