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 ...

In May 1562, Diego de Landa, the highest-ranking Catholic authority in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, received word that a large number of idols, along with human bones and deer meat, had been discovered ...

An image of wall paintings in the Green Room just after excavation. What is shown here inspired a facsimile (below) but no longer survives in its original form. It’s easy to envision why the princess ...

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Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ever sequenced. A mosaic death mask believed to have belonged to the Maya ...

The dig might have uncovered some of the earliest victims of the Black Death, and other tantalizing clues about medieval life in the citadel. The Chapel Royal of St Peter ad Vincula at the Tower of ...

Ruins of a prehistoric stone wall submerged off the northwest coast of France may be evidence that a sunken city of legend actually existed. The megalithic structure is thought to be about 7,000 years ...

Archaeologists discovered a rare 1,300-year-old lead pendant in Jerusalem decorated with the image of a menorah. It is only the second pendant like it ever found in the world, discovered during an ...