placeDesertPlacesA dry land of sparse water. Not oasis as the watered pocket, and not tartary as a steppe-name dump.Egyptian religionDesert appears in Egyptian religion.Herodotus’s Egyptian logos sets the inhabited Nile land against the surrounding desert waste. A named desert margin in that traveler’s account, not oasis as the watered pocket and not a Sahara gazetteer dump.from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCEappears in · sourced · documentedsourcesHistories · HerodotusHerodotus, Histories.