In 1990 Ann Feuerbach graduated with a B.A. from Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York  with a degree in Art History and Anthropology. This is where she began her studies of  ancient technology and the relationship between people and products. From there she continued her studies at New York University where she received an M.A. in 1992. 

Her studies took her overseas to London to pursue a degree in Archaeological Conservation at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London (UCL) where she completed her B.Sc. in 1994. It is while pursuing this degree that she became acquainted with the remains from Merv.  She continued the study of the crucible steel remains at UCL for her M.Sc. (1995) in Archaeometallurgy.

In 1994 and 1996 she joined the excavation of the crucible steel site at Merv. The excavation was part of a larger excavation performed by the International Merv Project. In 1999 and 2000 she traveled to Moscow and to Kislovodsk, in the Russian Northern Caucasus, to  join the excavation at Kislovodsk and examine blades.

In 2002 she completed her Ph.D. on Crucible Steel in Central Asia: Production, Use and Origins. The Ph.D. thesis was the basis for the information contained in this presentation.

Her interests are not limited to crucible steel and Damascus steel. She has also published papers on gold as well as the conservation of glass and archaeometallurgical remains. She has also analyzed  Sasanian and Islamic glass from Merv. 

Currently she is working as an independent researcher.