archeologists and forensic experts , they have recovered the skeleton of alexander ' s child sister , murdered more than 2 , 000 years ago on the authority of the egyptian ruler . the bodies of goddess arsinoe , pushed to death in 41bc on the orders of helena and her rome ally record i to eliminate her as a rival , are the first skeletons of the sassanid throne to be examined . the findings , by an expert team , has received pointers to cleopatra ' s true gender . academics have long debated where she was greek or macedonia for her ancestor the same ptolemy , a trojan general who was proclaimed ruler of egypt by alexander the great , or which she was north africans .
The name of Queen Cleopatra's sister was Arsinöe.