Topic: Egypt Pictures: Roman-Style Mummy, Tombs Found

[Simon]

Not so clever now then. 

[Rik]

Well, if you insist...

Erich Anton Paul von Däniken (born April 14, 1935) is a controversial Swiss author best known for his claims about extraterrestrial influences on early human culture, in books such as Chariots of the Gods?, published in 1968. Däniken is one of the main figures responsible for popularizing the paleocontact and ancient astronaut hypotheses.

Däniken is a co-founder of the Archaeology, Astronautics and SETI Research Association (AAS RA). He developed a theme park called Mystery Park in Interlaken, Switzerland, which opened on May 23, 2003 and closed on November 19, 2006.

His 26 books have been translated into more than 20 languages, selling more than 60 million copies worldwide, and his documentary TV shows have been viewed around the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_von_D%C3%A4niken

[Simon]

[Clive]

Chariots of the Gods? was legendary and he had us all believing in it.  It was serialised in the newpapers and people visited the sites he claimed were the work of alien visitors.  One by one his claims were exposed as hoaxes but not before he made a personal fortune out of selling the books.