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

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

Princess Irene of Greece, Queen Sofia’s younger sister, has died at 83. The daughter of King Paul and Queen Frederica lived ...

Erich von Däniken, the Swiss author whose bestselling books about the extraterrestrial origins of ancient civilizations ...

A 15th-century manuscript shows trees bearing (clockwise from top left): sweet apples, jujubes, lemons, cherries, dates, and sour apples. By 7,000 years ago, people in New Guinea were cultivating ...

Aerial photo showing a fifteenth-century citadel on the island of Pharos, where the Lighthouse of Alexandria once stood, and a digital image of the underwater remnants of the monument Coin showing the ...