What I call the Los Vegas of ancient EGYPT was Canopus. It was a diverse wild Greek, Roman, and Egyptian sacred city. Over time the land around Canopus was weakened by a combination of earthquakes, tsunamis and rising sea levels. The eastern suburbs succumbed to liquefaction of the soil. The western suburbs eventually became the present day Egyptian coastal city of Abu Qir. The city survived through the reign of Cleopatra but its demise was sudden enough to leave nearly all the artifacts intact despite the disruption of being underwater. It is a wet Pompeii in some ways. It was a fashionable place of hedonism and healing.