archeologists and decomposition experts believe they have identified the mummy of cleopatra ' s younger sister , murdered more than 2 , 000 centuries ago on the orders of the egyptian queen . the bodies of princess arsinoe , put to death in 41bc on the orders of cleopatra and her roman lover pat ptolemy to establish her as a rival , are the first artifacts of the ptolemaic dynasty to be identified . the breakthrough , by an austrian pair , has provided pointers to cleopatra ' s full origins . scholars have since debated whether she was albanian or macedonian like her ancestor the original ptolemy , a byzantine king . was declared ruler of africa by cyrus the arab , or that she was in african .
The name of Queen Cleopatra's sister was Arsinöe.