The alleged skull of "Cleopatra's sister" is shown to be that of an 11-year-old boy, a "big surprise."
A state-of-the-art examination of a skull discovered in Turkey in 1929 definitively establishes that it is not that of Cleopatra's half-sister, Arsinoë IV. By Khristina Killgrove Researchers have discovered that a skull long thought to belong to Cleopatra's half-sister, Arsinoë IV, really belonged to a teenage male with a genetic condition. The skeleton was found in Turkey a century ago, but a new study using DNA analysis and CT scans has conclusively shown that it was not Arsinoë. At Ephesus, an archeological site...