Best-selling Swiss author Erich von Daeniken, who built a lucrative career on his argument, rubbished by scientists and ...
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 ...
Despite criticism from the scientific community, his books sold almost 70 million copies in more than 30 languages.
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Swiss author Erich von Daeniken, who popularised ancient‑alien theories, dies at 90
His book Chariots of the Gods?, which theorised that advanced aliens had repeatedly visited Earth, sold millions of copies.
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