Born in 1935 in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, von Däniken was the son of a cloth manufacturer and grew up under strict religious ...
Long before Mount Vesuvius destroyed Pompeii, the city was home to unexpected Egyptian influences that continue to puzzle ...
Erich von Däniken, who has died aged 90, was among the first writers to suggest that human civilisation, and even human ...
Erich von Däniken, the Swiss author whose books on the extraterrestrial origins of ancient civilizations brought him both ...
Erich von Däniken, author who spawned alien archaeology theory, dies at 90 - The Swiss author whose bestselling books about ...