China’s first empress…

Posted On: Dec 18th, 2015 at 18:41

China
It seems China’s first female emperor was as brutal as her male equivalents.
Wu Zetian declared herself emperor – or should we be saying ’empress’ – when her emperor husband died in 690 AD.
A tomb discovered in China in 2002 (and not reported until 2014) contained, among other things, several bluestones inscribed with a very interesting tale…