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A Skull We Thought Belonged To Cleopatra's Half-Sister Actually Turned Out To Be A Boy With A Rare Genetic Disorder
A skull thought to belong to Cleopatra's half-sister, Arsinoë IV, has actually turned out to be from an adolescent boy who had a genetic disorder, according to CT scans and DNA analysis.
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Skull long thought to be Cleopatra’s sister’s was actually a young boy
The CT scan and morphological analysis showed that the boy was between 11 and 14 years old when he died, based on dental roots and a skull base that was still developing. There were also several ...
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New Study Finds That A Skull Believed To Belong To Cleopatra’s Sister Actually Belonged To A Young Boy
Who was the young boy? Why was he buried in such an elaborate tomb? And where is Arsinoë? In 1929, Austrian archaeologist Josef Keil came across a skull in a water-logged marble sarcophagus in ...