Researchers reconstruct monarch's face: And I am the Emperor of China. Using genetic material from his grave, researchers have recreated the face of a Chinese ruler from the 6th century.
They also found clues to his possible cause of death. Emperor Wu (543-578) was an influential ruler of the so-called Northern Zhou Dynasty. Among other things, he reorganized the military and unified the northern part of ancient China after his troops destroyed a rival dynasty in 577. Wu's actual name was Yuwen Yong and his ethnicity was Xianbei.