The past teemed with unknown gods who visited the primeval Earth in manned spaceships,' he declared in his first global bestseller, Chariots Of The Gods, in 1968.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Details about the movie are being kept tightly under wraps, but, big-picture, it explores what happens when humanity learns that ...