When Herod the King died, the angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph and said to him: “Get up, take the boy and his mother, and go to Israel, because those who seek the same boy have died.” So he rose and took the boy and his mother and returned to Israel (Matthew 19:21).
Nothing explicitly mentioned in the ancient and modern sources and references about the path taken by the Holy Family in its return to Palestine.
Some historians have suggested that the Holy Family had headed south to a port on the Nile in Assiut, where there is a berth for ships from which the people of the region sail there, and Assiut was at the time the center of river transportation between Upper Egypt and Memphis.
Also, the reins of Qusiya were often blown by stormy winds, in addition to the fact that the shores of the Nile in this area are sandy and dangerous, and it bends sharply and the valley opens to the river at a right angle, and this confirms the reason for the absence of an anchorage in this area. Navigation in Qusiyah is still difficult so far, so taking the Nile road from Assiut is the easiest way leading from Upper Egypt to northern Egypt and from there to Palestine.
This is the place the Holy Family headed south to in Assiut, where the Virgin Monastery was found on Mount Drunka in Assiut today. Dronka Monastery is located in the western mountain of Assiut, at a height of one hundred meters from the surface of the agricultural land, and it is 8 km away from the city of Assiut.
