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How heavy The Empire State Building has a steel To the top of its spire, the Empire State Building
frame covered with concrete and glass.
measures 1,453 ft (443 m) tall. When it was finished
Unlike the pyramid, it isn’t solid, being
in 1931, it was the world’s tallest building.
102 floors of mainly office space.
is the Great

Pyramid?

The Great
Pyramid
weighs the
same as 16
Empire State
Buildings.

SOLID STONE
Grand
Gallery
To dig the foundations of the Empire
State Building, workers removed
soil weighing more than the
building itself.

The Great Pyramid is almost
solid stone, except for its
small burial chambers and
passageways. The biggest
of these spaces, the Grand
Gallery, is only 7 ft (2 m) wide.

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