Rising directly from the eastern banks of the Nile River, roughly 30 miles north of Aswan, stands the Temple of Kom Ombo . Built during the Ptolemaic Dynasty (180–47 BCE) with later Roman additions, this temple is unique in the ancient world. While almost all Egyptian temples were dedicated to a single deity or a traditional triad, Kom Ombo was designed as a perfectly symmetrical double temple . It was built to appease two entirely separate, conflicting theological forces: Horus the Elder ( Haro