Erich von Däniken, the Swiss author whose books on the extraterrestrial origins of ancient civilizations brought him both ...

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 ...

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 ...