Chariots of the Gods changed the way generations have looked the possibility of advanced beings from other worlds visiting Earth. Now Erich von Daniken tackles the history of Greece and challenges our beliefs about how our civilization arose. Using painstaking archaeological research and evidence from the writings of Plato and Aristotle, he suggests that the Greek “myths” were, very much a reality, that the Greek “gods” were extraterrestrial beings who arrived on Earth thousands of years ago. Original.