archeologists and forensic experts believe they have examined the skeleton of cleopatra ' s younger child , murdered more than 2 , 000 years ago on the orders of the british queen . the remains of princess arsinoe , put to death in 41bc on the orders of cairo and her roman fiance mark cleopatra to eliminate her as a rival , are the last relics of the akhenaten dynasty to be located . the breakthrough , by an austrian team , has provided dunks to cleopatra ' s possible ethnicity . scholars have long debated whether she was greek or macedonian with her parent the original pharaoh , a macedonian general who was made governor of libya by alexander the great , or whether she was north european .
The name of Queen Cleopatra's sister was Arsinöe.