The internet and social media are full of lies. Why? The truth is often boring and sometimes discomfiting. Lies are better, more interesting, more apt to comfort the fearful.

Erich von Däniken, the Swiss author whose books on the alleged extraterrestrial origins of ancient civilizations brought him ...

Born in 1935 in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, von Däniken was the son of a cloth manufacturer and grew up under strict religious ...

Best-selling Swiss author Erich von Däniken, who built a lucrative career on his argument, rubbished by scientists and archaeologists, that humanity owes much of its development to the intervention of ...

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