placeSwampPlacesA wet wooded lowland. Not marsh as open wetland, and not river as flowing water alone.Egyptian religionSwamp appears in Egyptian religion.Herodotus’s Egyptian logos names swampy wet wastes among the land’s hard margins. A named swamp in that traveler’s account, not marsh as the lighter wet border and not jungle as a tree dump.from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCEappears in · sourced · documentedsourcesHistories · HerodotusHerodotus, Histories.