This was the metamorphisis from the picture taken of Arsinoe's skull in the 1920's to the computer reconstruction of the face. It's kind of interesting, but I believe the face is slightly off...It's very close though. The thing is the special, "Cleopatra Portrait of a Murderer" was supposed to be about Arsinoe and in articles and on blogs they seemed to be obsessed about Cleo being of mixed heritage. NO. It was Arsinoe who was mixed racially. They had different mothers. In fact that is why, at first, Cleo was trying to keep hold of Arsinoe so much, to curry Egyptian favor because of her little sister's Egyptian blood line. But when it became evident that they were at odds on how to handle Rome and it wasn't going to change, Cleopatra betrayed Arsinoe and the whole Ptolemaic Dynasty.
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