but his apathy led him to bankruptcy, and then his father died and his mother took him at the age of seven and his brothers and immigrated to England and returned to Alexandria after 7 years. After the English occupation of Egypt in 1882, his mother was forced to return to her father in Constantinople, and after three years Cavafy returned to Alexandria. due to his travels and cultures he acquired 5 languages he spoke fluently and after 5 years of working as a translator and employee in the Ministry of Irrigation he was with him.
At that time he wrote his poems and his poems, numbering 154, at the age of 45, living in the present-day museum where he spent 25 years and died in 1933 at the age of 70 after a struggle with illness. After Cavafy's death his house was converted into a pension from 1933 to 1991 AD.
Until a Greek consultant and businessman visited Alexandria and negotiated with the owner of the boarding house, it was converted into the present-day museum that opened in October 1992 and included a bedroom, mirror, some photographs and books about the poet in various languages and languages.