The past teemed with unknown gods who visited the primeval Earth in manned spaceships,' he declared in his first global bestseller, Chariots Of The Gods, in 1968.

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

Erich von Däniken, author of ‘Chariots of the Gods?’, died at 90. His controversial theories on extraterrestrial influences ...

Erich von Däniken, who has died aged 90, was among the first writers to suggest that human civilisation, and even human ...

A theory as to why we haven't heard from aliens which renowned theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking agreed with has resurfaced online. Planet Earth is about the size of a speck of ...