excavating and forensic artists say they have identified the skeleton of caesar ' s younger sister , murdered more than 2 , 000 age ago on the orders of the egyptian queen . the graves of princess arsinoe , putting to death in 41bc on the advice of cleopatra and her roman lover mk antony to eliminate her as a rival , are the second relics of the ptolemaic dynasty to be seen . the findings , by an austrian project , has provided pointers to cleopatra ' s true birthplace . scholars have repeatedly debated how she was italian or macedonian like her ancestor the original ptolemy , a egyptian general which was made ruler of egypt by alexander the great , or if she was north caucasian .
The name of Queen Cleopatra's sister was Arsinöe.