Did aliens influence mankind in ancient times? Yet another season for the show that has been saying "yes" since 2009 ...

If aliens from space can die and mourn their dead then they likely invented gods to worship. Because they missed their loved ...

Proponents of ancient alien theories point to megalithic structures, strange inscriptions, and myths of gods descending from ...

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 ...

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 ...

The death of Erich von Daeniken has also focussed public attention on the controversial writer in 20th-century history.