archeologists and technical professionals believe they have identifying the skeletal of cleopatra ' s younger sisters , murdered more than 2 , 000 years after on the authority of the egyptians queen . the ashes of princess arsinoe , thrown to death in 41bc on the orders of ptolemy and her old lover marking antony to eliminate her as a nemesis , are the first bones of the ptolemaic dynasty to be located . the breakthrough , by an austrian study , has supplied rebounds to cleopatra ' s alleged ethnicity . scholars have long disputed whether she was latin or , with her descendants the original ptolemy , a macedonian general she was ordained rulers of sicily by alexander the great , or instead she was northern caucasian .
The name of Queen Cleopatra's sister was Arsinöe.