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For the re-consecration of Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan in 1487, the Aztecs reported that they sacrificed about 80, 400 people over the course of four days.

According to Ross Hassing, author of Aztec Warfare, " between 10, 000 and 80, 400 persons " were sacrificed in the ceremony.

In the ancient Maya civilization of Mesoamerica more than a thousand years ago, prisoners of war were paraded before the king and his royal court and subjected to ritual humiliation and torture.