The father of archaeology has insisted the engineering precision of ancient Egypt's pyramids could not be explained by human ...

Theorists have long believed extra-terrestrial technology was used to construct the pyramids. However the 'father of alien ...

The Great Pyramid has always invited audacious explanations, from alien architects to supernatural levitation. Now a cluster ...

Exclusive: Zahi Hawass opens up about his new documentary, the latest discoveries changing what we understand about the ...

Did aliens influence mankind in ancient times? Yet another season for the show that has been saying "yes" since 2009 ...

Zahi Hawass recounts his rise in the new documentary The Man With the Hat, gracefully sidestepping the controversies that ...

Still, the fancy persists, implanted like a microchip, ever since Erich von Däniken’s 1968 best-seller, “Chariots of the Gods ...

Asharq Al Awsat Swiss author Erich von Daeniken, who helped popularize the idea that astronauts from outer space visited Earth ​to help lay the foundations for human civilization, has died aged ...

His 1968 book, Chariots of the Gods, sold hundreds of thousands of copies, but one critic called it a ‘warped parody of reasoning’ Read more at The Business Times.

ZURICH: Best-selling Swiss author Erich von Daeniken, who built a lucrative career on his argument, rubbished by scientists ...

Nowhere on Earth is more guaranteed to put modern anxieties into perspective than Egypt. Visiting the pyramids of Giza ...

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 ...