Centuries before modern billionaires like Elon Musk, Mukesh Ambani, Jeff Bezos, Bernard Arnault, and Mark Zuckerberg made fortunes, there was a woman who amassed wealth that surpassed the net ...

Chinese Empress Wu Zetian: European queens like Catherine the Great and Queen Elizabeth I are often celebrated for their might, but here is a queen whose name often finds a miss. Known for her ...

Wu Zetian, empress of the Tang Dynasty, was believed to be a cunning and ruthless ruler. But new evidence unearthed by archaeologists has challenged this version of her story. A Rare Look at ...

However, long before any of them, there was a woman whose wealth surpassed them all — Empress Wu Zetian of China’s Tang dynasty. Her fortune, valued at an estimated USD 16 trillion (in today ...

Here, series presenter Rana Mitter tells the story of Wu Zetian, the female Emperor. Only one woman has ever sat on China’s throne as Emperor in her own right. That woman was Wu Zetian (624-705 ...

In 690AD, she forced him to step down, declaring herself the founding emperor of a new Zhou dynasty, and taking the name Wu Zetian. But as brutal as her rise to power undoubtedly was ...

Just twice has a woman assumed leadership of the country. Wu Zetian was the first, but it took 1,200 years for the next one to take centre stage. Her surname was Yehenara, daughter of a Manchu ...