The Great Pyramid was already 2,500 years old when she was born, while only about 2,000 years separate her from Apollo 11. She also spoke around nine languages.
Hatshepsut ruled for two decades and wore the ceremonial beard of kingship. Decades after her death her name was chiselled off monuments, and she was rediscovered only in the 19th century.
Wu Zetian took the throne in her own name in 690 CE, the only woman in over two thousand years of Chinese history to do so. She ran the empire for nearly half a century.
