Easter Island — has been reduced to giant stone heads rising from the earth, as if the moai were incomplete sculptures ...

Erich von Däniken, the Swiss author whose 1968 book Chariots of the Gods? launched the ancient astronaut movement and sold ...

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

In the 1970s, author Erich von Däniken was a household name, not only in his native Switzerland, but also in the U.S. and ...