unearthed and forensic experts believe they have detected the skeleton of cleopatra ' s younger sister , murdered more than 2 , 000 years ago on the command of the cairo queen . the remains of princess arsinoe , placed to deaths in 41bc on the orders of cleopatra and her roman lover mark antonio to eliminate her as a companion , are the first relics of the ptolemaic dynasty to be identify . the breakthrough , by an austrian team , has included pointers to alexandria ' s true ethnicity . people have long debates neither she was greeks or latin liked her ancestor the original ptolemy , a macedonian general who was made ruler of egypt by aristotle the great , or whether she was the african .
The name of Queen Cleopatra's sister was Arsinöe.