Moses accordingly made a bronze serpent and mounted it on a pole, ... The cross is supposed to be weird and ugly, shocking like a near-death experience in the desert, ...

2) The bronze serpent not only is a foreshadowing of Christ on the cross (John 3:14: “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up”), but also an ...

Archaeologists found a 3,000-year-old fort in the Egyptian desert with weapons, food storage, and a bronze sword inscribed with Ramesses II.

Thousands of years ago, Bronze Age people known as the Xiaohe lived in the now inhospitable Taklamakan Desert in northwest China — and they made their own cheese.