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 ...

Best-selling Swiss author Erich von Däniken, who built a lucrative career on his argument, rubbished by scientists and archaeologists, that humanity owes much of its development to the intervention of ...

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 ...

Flat earth, Illuminati, fake moon landing - these are the things that come to most people’s minds when you think about ...

America’s growing fixation on conspiracy theories has become a major concern, according to long-running surveys and ...