The skull of a person long thought to be Cleopatra’s half sister was misidentified for nearly a century, new research from Nature Scientific Reports concludes, raising intriguing questions about ...

The skull discovered in 1929 at the Octagon building in Ephesus has been identified as that of an 11-year-old boy, debunking theories linking it to Cleopatra’s half-sister, Arsinoë IV.

A skull once thought to be Cleopatra’s sister Arsinoë IV was identified as that of a Roman boy with developmental disorders, ending decades of speculation. The search for Arsinoë IV’s remains now ...

Mummies’ skin glows brightly when scanned by a laser, revealing the fine details of any tattoos on the preserved body part 1. Getting inked has been a tradition for more than 5,000 years, but ...

Cleopatra Selene II had a turbulent life from the beginning. Born to Cleopatra and Mark Antony amid their alliance following Julius Caesar’s assassination, Cleopatra Selene II entered the world during ...

(file) A mystery dating back nearly a century about a skull believed to belong to Cleopatra's murdered half-sister has been solved using modern DNA analysis and radiocarbon dating. The skull ...