The skull of ‘Cleopatra’s sister’ actually belongs to an 11-year-old boy

A skull long assumed to be from Arsinoë IV, Cleopatra’s half sister, is actually from an adolescent boy who had a genetic disorder. In a new study, the combination of computed tomography scans and DNA analysis has proved once and for all that the skeleton, which was discovered in Turkey a century ago, is not Arsinoë. In 1929, a skeleton was found in a marble sarcophagus in a building called the Octagon at Ephesus, an archaeological site in Turkey. There were no grave goods or inscriptions, but a...