Von Daniken rose to prominence in 1968 with 'Chariots Of The Gods', which argued that alien astronauts visited the Mayans and ancient Egyptians, teaching them advanced technologies that enabled the ...

[ZURICH] Erich von Daniken, the best-selling Swiss author and self-styled maverick archaeologist who propagated the theory that thousands of years ago an advanced alien species visited Earth, mated ...

The new Indiana Jones flick prompts an anthropologist to debunk-- yet again! -- a resilient strain of crank theories: Over the last 500 years Europeans and Americans have sought nearly any explanation ...

Ben Carson is doubling down on his theory that the Egyptian pyramids were not built as funerary monuments but in fact were built by the biblical Joseph, when serving as Pharoah’s Prime Minister, to ...

Remember that book “Chariots of the Gods”? The one written by that charismatic but dodgy Swiss named Erich Von Daniken? It was all about how most of the world’s ancient cultures were started by aliens ...