Every bit as remarkable as the world premiere of the exhibition, is the manner in which the artefacts are transported: some of them weigh several tons and for the journey from Alexandria to Berlin and then onwards to Paris they are loaded onto a Beluga, which is the most voluminous cargo transport aircraft in existence. Among the "passengers" of the Beluga is the largest free-standing statue of an Egyptian deity ever found, a representation of Hapi, the god of fertility and the Nile flood (height: 540 cm) and a remarkably well-defined sculpture of a female body, thought to be a likeness of the Ptolemaic queen Arsinoe II. Another significant item is the 80 cm high head of a colossal statue dating from the 1st century BC: the youthful look of the face leads archaeologists to suppose that it is a portrait of Cleopatra's oldest son, her child by Caesar. The people of Alexandria used to refer to him as "Caesarion", meaning "Little Caesar".
