historians and forensic experts believe they have identified the skeleton of cleopatra ' s younger sister , murdered more than 2 , 000 years earlier on the command of the egyptian emperor . the graves of princess arsinoe , puts to death in 41bc on the orders of cleopatra and her classical lover marks antony to eliminate her as a nemesis , are the first relics of the seleucid monarch to be identified . the breakthrough , by an austrian team , has provided pointers to cleopatra ' s full birthplace . archaeologists have long debated though she was egyptian or , like her father the original ptolemy , a macedonian warrior who was made monarch of egypt by alexander the great , or whether she was north african .
The name of Queen Cleopatra's sister was Arsinöe.