Erich von Däniken, the Swiss author whose 1968 book Chariots of the Gods? launched the ancient astronaut movement and sold ...
Erich von Däniken, the Swiss author whose books on the alleged extraterrestrial origins of ancient civilizations brought him ...
ZURICH, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Best-selling Swiss author Erich von Daeniken, who built a lucrative career ‌on ​his argument, rubbished by scientists and archaeologists, that ‌humanity owes much of its ...
Born in 1935 in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, von Däniken was the son of a cloth manufacturer and grew up under strict religious ...
His 1968 book, Chariots of the Gods, sold hundreds of thousands of copies, but one critic called it a ‘warped parody of ...