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The 20,000 human sacrifices carried out at the Aztect's Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan each year must have created a river of blood and mound of decaying bodies. How did the Aztecs clean this up to prevent disease outbreaks? Where did the remains get buried? It must have been a hygiene nightmare.

by /u/RusticBohemian in /r/AskHistorians

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