In his 2005 book The World of the Maya he claimed that Mayan hieroglyphics indicate that their ancestors weren’t from the planet Earth, but came from the Pleiades, a cluster of stars 444 light years away. The Pleiadians are a speculated species of alien that conspiracy theorists believe periodically visit our planet. They’re said to be humanoid in looks, with a lifespan of a thousand years. According to Osmanagić, when they arrived here they created an advanced civilisation in Atlantis.‡
