was ultimately executed on Cleopatra’s orders as part of her effort to consolidate power. In 1929, a team, including Austrian archaeologist Josef Keil, uncovered a sarcophagus in the remains of ...

Several years earlier, she’d battled against Cleopatra and Julius Caesar during ... Scientists knew the person buried in the sarcophagus must have been important, and the Octagon had ...

Scientists thought a tomb with similarities to buildings from Ptolemaic Egypt had been erected in memory of Cleopatra’s half sister, Arsinoë IV.

A nearly century-old mystery surrounding a skull thought to belong to Cleopatra’s murdered sister was solved ... “a complete skeleton” inside a sarcophagus. At the time, Keil deemed the ...

In 1929, Austrian archaeologist Josef Keil discovered a water-filled sarcophagus in the ruins ... unusual burial might have belonged to Cleopatra’s half-sister, who some believed was executed ...

For decades, scientists had identified the skeleton as that of Arsinoe IV, the doomed half-sister of Cleopatra VII ... Keil and his colleagues found a sarcophagus completely filled with water ...

Cleopatra's sister, new findings reveal the skull belongs to a boy aged 11 to 14, who exhibited signs of developmental disorders. This discovery ends decades of speculation surrounding the remains.

A new study settled a century-long debate over whether an ancient skull found at an elaborate tomb in Ephesos, Turkey, was Cleopatra’s sister ... when they opened a sarcophagus and found ...

On this day, 101 years ago, archeologists unveiled the ancient Egyptian ruler King Tutankhamun after his sarcophagus was discovered in a well-hidden tomb that had been preserved for over 3,000 ...