In The Gods were Astronauts, Erich von Daniken investigates a mystery that has fascinated humankind for millennia: who, or what, were the Gods described in ancient stories?

Von Daniken has exhaustively researched and analyzed the great world religions, their myths and belief structures, in an effort to find an answer to this question. His extraordinary conclusion? The Gods were not metaphysical beings born of humanity's overactive imagination, but extraterrestrials who left traces of their presence everywhere on Earth.