"'Nitrocris of Babylon"' circa (550 BC), was a queen of Babylon, either married to Nebuchadnezzar II or daughter of Nebuchadnezzar II. It is said that she carried on several of his building projects after Nebuchadnezzar II's death and was also influential in the reign of later kings of Babylon. According to Herodotus

Herodotus

Herodotus was an ancient Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus, Caria and lived in the 5th century BC . He has been called the "Father of History", and was the first historian known to collect his materials systematically, test their accuracy to a certain extent and arrange them in a...

 she tricked Darius by placing her tomb above a gate so that Darius could not pass under that gate. According to the account, she also left a mysterious inscription that served as a trap for greedy kings.