Erich von Daniken, Swiss writer who spawned alien archaeology, dies at 90

[Martin68]

16. Chariots of the Gods was a total crock. Any scholar who had studied Aztec, Mayan, Indian, or Egyptian mythology and

hieroglyphics knew that that the clueless von Deniken claimed were depictions of alien astronauts had clear meanings in the context of each culture's mythology and cosmology. He spawned an entire industry of amateurs looking at artifacts and drawing sensationalistic conclusions based on nothing but their own imaginations. Junk science.