They are the books you will love during your first reading when you were young but won't impress you that much after rereading them after a few years.

The author attempts to prove his theory that aliens visited ancient man by stating repeatedly that ancient man, given the knowledge they apparently possessed, could not have accomplished, without help, many of the wondrous things they have been credited with or have obtained. The onsite quarrying for stones and also canal transportation of the stones is the most accepted hypothesis regarding the construction of Pyramids. The tomb in which a gold necklace and the skeleton of an entirely unknown animal were found probably belonged to King Udimu.

But here is where it all began--von Daniken's startling theories of our earliest encounters with alien worlds, based upon his lifelong studies of ancient ruins, lost cities, potential spaceports, and a myriad of hard scientific facts that point to extraterrestrial intervention in human history. AS SEEN ON ANCIENT ALIENS • The groundbreaking classic that introduced the theory that ancient Earth established contact with aliens. This best selling book was probably the water shed moment in the proliferation of conspiracy theories and other pseudo-scientific stuff in the popular literature. The worldwide best seller was followed by 40 more books, including the recent best sellers Twilight of the Gods, History is Wrong, Evidence of the Gods, Remnants of the Gods, and Odyssey of the Gods (all published by New Page Books).

From his books two full-length documentary films have been produced: Chariots of the Gods and Messages of the Gods. Later editions were published as "Chariot of the Gods"; but this early edition I have is instead entitled "Chariot of the Gods? von Daniken's space-faring Gods and rewriting of human history have had a profound influence on both alternative archaeology and popular culture. Von Daniken's thesis (which sold a surprising number of books, and has made him a prosperous man) is that, from the Old Stone Age down into the ancient Iron Age, Earth was repeatedly visited, on all parts of the globe, by advanced aliens who are responsible for all of mankind's religions, and for virtually all the architectural and scientific achievements of the ancient world. Von Däniken maintains that these artifacts were produced either by extraterrestrial visitors or by humans who learned the necessary knowledge from extraterrestrials.Orthodox historians have been sceptical but a vast public have been drawn to his ideas by instinctive interest and wonder. Before space travel was achieved by man, the evidence was considered to be 'visions' or the workings of an overactive imagination, then when man finally started his tentative steps into space, Aliens from another planet were considered impossible because we didn't then know how to travel at the speed of light, now we know this can be achieved, the real experts have had to allow that there 'may' have been such visits. The third school of thought is that the scientists already know how the pyramids were made, including their architectural design and blueprints.