Egypt word search

Solve this word search puzzles about Ancient Egypt and learn about computational thinking and search algorithms.

Puzzles are a good way of developing computational thinking. Algorithmic thinking helps to solve a word search quickly. Do you look for words randomly or do you scan the grid in an organised way. Work out exactly what you do.

Learn about:

search algorithms
linear search
algorithmic thinking
computational thinking

Find the names of these Egyptian Gods and Godesses in the grid. Words can appear horizontally, vertically or diagonally.

Which listed god or goddess is missing from the grid? How can you be sure it isn’t there?

What were they the god or goddess of? Which had the head of an animal, and what was the animal?

AMUN
ANUBIS
HATHOR
HORUS
ISIS
KHEPRI
KHNUM
OSIRIS
PTAH
RA
SETH
THOTH

H A U U R I P O
A N U B I S T I
T U R I N I E R
H O R U S S R P
X O M B E S K E
O A T P T A H H
T H O T H O N K
H A T H O R U S
P H T A P A M O

Download the puzzle sheet below.

Print or do on the computer (and practice some IT skills)

The puzzle sheets below can be printed to do on paper, OR open the pdf in a pdf reader (ie save locally and just open the document the way you normally would) and use the highlighting tool of the reader to highlight words found.

Resources: Egyptian Gods and Goddesses Word Search