placeOasisPlacesA watered place in dry land. Not desert as the surround, and not a garden dump alone.Egyptian religionOasis appears in Egyptian religion.Herodotus names oasis seats such as Ammon’s among the watered pockets west of the Nile. A named oasis in that traveler’s account, not desert as the waste alone and not every spring dump.from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCEappears in · sourced · documentedsourcesHistories · HerodotusHerodotus, Histories.