[1] Notably, she led the archaeological excavations of the Phoenician necropolis of Tir Al-Bass in Tyre, Lebanon, as part of a project by the Spanish Ministry of Education.
She and her collaborators were the first to obtain permission from the Lebanese authorities to excavate in the area of what was once the center of ancient Tyre, where the city's temples, palaces, and markets were located.
These remains from the necropolis, at the entrance to the city of Tyre, were dated to the 9th and 10th centuries BCE, and were uncovered alongside hundred of funerary amphoras, amulets, and jewels.
From 1994 to 1997, she directed the European Union's Med-Campus "Odysseus" research exchange program, focusing on Phoenician archaeology, which connected experts in Barcelona, Beirut, Cyprus, Tübingen, Cagliari, and Malta.
[1] Her 1987 work Tiro y las colonias fenicias de occidente is one of the most consulted and translated books in the field of Mediterranean protohistory; it was first published in English as The Phoenicians and the West: Politics, Colonies, and Trade in 1993.