Do tourists know that in Egypt, under the sands near Saqqara, millions of mummies of all kinds of animals lie? Hidden underground is the real Noah's Ark, which has yet to be discovered! What prompted the ancient Egyptians to embalm millions of birds and hundreds of thousands of crocodiles?

Erich von Däniken studied ancient documents that report that “wonderful creatures of many types and different from each other” once lived on Earth. Are all these creatures generated by human imagination - or did all these monsters really once live on our planet?

Yes, they did, says Däniken in his exciting book. What luminary of genetic engineering invented and created them? By cleverly combining legends with scientific data, the writer and researcher takes us into a special world where reality turns out to be more interesting than fiction.