He visited South America, Russia and Egypt, seeing firsthand many of the monuments of the ancient past. After leaving school, he took various jobs in hotels, and this seasonal work left him with spare time that he spent in traveling and reading. At an early age von D äniken was fascinated by "inconsistencies" between religious doctrine and the accounts of mysterious events in the Bible. Born in Zofingen, Switzerland, April 14, 1935, he was brought up in a conservative Roman Catholic setting at St. Swiss writer whose 1969 book, Chariots of the Gods, gave focus to a wave of popular interest in the idea that in ancient times the earth was visited by extraterrestrials whose presence is documented in a variety of archeological remains.
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