In Wu Zetian (H10-1), Hirst employs one of his signature motifs: butterflies. The present work comes from Hirst's Empresses series, each design dedicated to one of history's great female rulers. The ...

Empress Wu Zetian entered the Chinese court as a fifth-tier concubine, but she ended her life as the country's only female emperor. Once described as hated by “gods and men alike," Zetian ...

Qianling, the tomb of the third Tang emperor, Li Zhi, and Empress Wu Zetian, is located on Liangshan ... The above mentioned history book recorded "the tomb chamber of Qianling was closed up ...

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 ...

How did she do it? She did so with ruthless determination – she killed her own newborn child – and then framed the Empress for the murder. Wu Zetian (624-705) of the Tang dynasty Wu Zetian ...

Wu Zetian was the first ... was made Noble Consort Yi, second only to the empress. Unusually, she could read and write Chinese and became educated in state affairs. In 1860, just before his ...