Colca Canyon, located in southern Peru, is among the deepest canyons on Earth, plunging more than 3,000 meters between ...

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Shielded from development and agriculture, many archaeological sites from ancient Greece have now become inadvertent safe ...

There was never any doubt that the 1996 original would take first place as the best Tomb Raider game. Originally released for ...

Tourists stand behind barriers blocking the access to the Louvre main courtyard, La Cour Napoleon, with the Louvre Pyramid, ...

With over 195 countries on our planet, the world is a pretty strange place if you think about it. Every country is vastly ...

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Swiss author Erich von Daeniken, who helped popularize the idea that astronauts from outer space visited Earth ​to help lay ...

Erich von Däniken, the Swiss author whose books on the alleged extraterrestrial origins of ancient civilizations brought him ...

Born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, in 1935, von Däniken rose to prominence when he published Chariots of the Gods? while working as a hotel manager in Davos. The book posed a provocative question that ...

His 1968 book, Chariots of the Gods, sold hundreds of thousands of copies, but one critic called it a ‘warped parody of ...

The Nandagang Wetland in Cangzhou, China, recently inscribed on the UNESCO World Natural Heritage List, is a vital hub along the East Asian–Australasian Flyway and an important sanctuary for global ...