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Erich von Däniken, the Swiss author whose bestselling books about the extraterrestrial origins of ancient civilizations ...

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 development to the intervention ...