Is there more to Egypt's Great Pyramid than you realize?

Do you know why air plane pilots are warned not to fly over Egypt's Great Pyramid? That's right, the Civil Airline Department has banned all planes from flying over the pyramids. As you read on, see if you can discover why.

AMAZING PYRAMID WONDERS

The largest structure at Giza, in Egypt, is the Cheops pyramid.

SIZE • The Cheops pyramid is 476 feet high, with a base 764 feet, and covers thirteen acres (an area almost equal to seven city blocks). The polished limestone facings (now removed) covered 22 acres.

• It is still larger than any modern building. New York’s Empire State Building is among the very highest erected by modern man, yet it is only about 2/5 the volume of the Cheops pyramid.

WEIGHT • The building comprises 2,300,000 blocks, totalling 6,250,000 tons in weight (each stone is 2-1/2 tons). This amounts to more stone than has been used in all of England’s churches, cathedrals and chapels built since the time of Christ.

• Covering the "King’s Chamber" are granite slabs of 60 to 70…