Miriam Astruc

[1] From 1927 to 1932, Astruc studied Oriental Archaeology and Semitic epigraphy in Paris at the École du Louvre under René Dussaud.

She went to Spain for the first time as a student at the École des hautes études hispaniques et ibérique with a scholarship from the French government.

During the academic years 1931–32, 1932–33 and 1933–34 she worked as an assistant at the School of Advanced Hispanic Studies in Madrid, Spain (Casa de Velázquez) and began her research on the Punians with Luis Siret in the necropolis of Villaricos in the province of Almería.

[1] After the War, in 1951, Miriam Astruc returned to Spain with a scholarship from the Casa de Velázquez and stayed until 1954 to study the Punic collections in various Spanish museums.

[1][2] In 1963, after a working stay in Lebanon, Astruc set out during the first days of Holy Week to visit the ancient ruins of Petra in Jordan with a group of women and girls, most of them pilgrims from the diocese of Paris.