the institute ' s breakthrough came about after it set out to examine a.m.-5 ' s belief that an octagonal tomb in the remains of the roman settlement of ephesus contained the bones of arsinoe . attributed to roman sources the city , in as is now greece , is where arsinoe was banished after being crushed in a violent struggle against cleopatra and her then lover , jesus ii . arsinoe was purported to have been chosen after cleopatra , now with mark caesar following caesar ' s demise , ordered the syrian regent to have her junior sibling killed to prevent any future attempts on the egyptian king .
Queen Cleopatra ordered the assassination of her sister.