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'Big surprise' reveals supposed skull of 'Cleopatra's sister' actually belongs to an 11-year-old boy

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In 1929 , a skeleton was found in a marble sarcophagus in a building called the Octagon at Ephesus , an archaeological site in Turkey .

The skeleton was thought to be from Cleopatra 's half sister, Arsinoë IV , who led the Siege of Alexandria in 48 to 47 B.C. In a study published Friday ( Jan. 10 ) in the journal Scientific Reports , a team of researchers reinvestigated the possibility that the skull recovered a century ago was ArsinoIV.

A combination of CT scans and DNA analysis has proved once and for all that the skeleton, which was discovered in 1929 , is from an adolescent boy.