Erich von Däniken, the Swiss author whose 1968 book Chariots of the Gods? launched the ancient astronaut movement and sold ...

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His book Chariots of the Gods?, which theorised that advanced aliens had repeatedly visited Earth, sold millions of copies.

His 1968 book, Chariots of the Gods, sold hundreds of thousands of copies, but one critic called it a ‘warped parody of ...

Born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, in 1935, von Däniken rose to prominence when he published Chariots of the Gods? while working as a hotel manager in Davos. The book posed a provocative question that ...

Swiss author Erich von Däniken, whose books offered up extraterrestrial explanations for humanity's mysteries, has died.