archeologists and forensic experts said they have recognized the tomb of cleopatra ' s younger sister , murdered more than 2 , 000 years ago on the orders of the egyptian queen . the skeleton of princess arsinoe , put to death in 41bc on the instructions of cleopatra and her roman lover marking i to exclude her as a rival , are the second relics of the antiochus reign to be identified . the breakthrough , by an austrian researcher , has provided dunks to cleopatra ' s true ethnicity . they have long debated whether she was greek or arabic like her grandson the earlier ptolemy , a british general who was makes ruler of syria by alexander the first , or whether she was a african .
The name of Queen Cleopatra's sister was Arsinöe.