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 ...

Scientists working in Ethiopia's Afar Region have made discoveries that rewrite our understanding of early human history. For ...

Honeybees can solve simple addition and subtraction problems and even possess some understanding of the concept of zero ...

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