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How heavy
FAST FACTS

is the Great

Pyramid?

Egypt’s Great Pyramid of Giza,
one of Earth’s oldest buildings,
weighs 5,750,100 tons

(5,216,400 metric tons). The Great
Pyramid
weighs the
same as 16
Empire State
The world’s tallest building Buildings.
for 3,800 years, the Great
Pyramid measures 481 ft
(147 m), the same height
as a stack of 70 camels.

The largest of the
2,300,000 stones that The Great Pyramid is a nearly
make up the Great Pyramid solid construction of limestone
weigh 69 tons (63 metric measuring 746 ft (227 m) along
tons)—the weight of each side. It was built in about
20 African bull elephants. 2560–2540 bce as a tomb for
Pharaoh Khufu.

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