Her father, Eliyahu Krause (1876–1962), was an agronomist who worked for Baron Edmond James de Rothschild.

[1] Marquet-Krause joined John Garstang's excavation team at Jericho in 1932 or 1933, where she was in charge of the finds processing for graves.

[3] In 1933 she was appointed lead archaeologist at the Canaanite city of Ai, where she led excavations for three consecutive years between 1933 and 1935.

[6] The excavations showed that Ai was an important fortified city in the Early Bronze Age (3100-2400 BC),[7] with a temple, in which pottery and Egyptian alabaster vessels were found, and tombs with other funerary finds.

[6] It too was abandoned by the inhabitants, but not destroyed or conquered,[9] thus demonstrating that the Book of Joshua's account was not historically accurate.

[3] Reassessment of her work in the late twentieth century, by Ziony Zevit and Beth Alpert Nakhai, of Marquet-Krause's identification of the temple at Ai supported her theory that it was a ritual space.