19 descendants of 5,300-year-old ice mummies were found

Scientists in Austria have found 19 people living as descendants of the 5,300-year-old prehistoric iceberg discovered in the snow Alps.

Researchers from the Institute of Legal Medicine at Innsbruck Medical University took DNA samples and relative information from blood donors in Tyrol in western Austria.

The results were surprising, showing that 19 of the 3,700 blood donors analyzed were mutated with the same Otzi gang.

These 19 people have genetic mutations that resemble ice men

Researchers believe that with this result they can also be found in the vicinity of Engadine in Switzerland and southern Tyrol in Italy.

Sharing with the BBC news agency, Walther Parson, a researcher at Innsbruck University School of Medicine, said that experts have "found partners in Switzerland and Italy to continue their research".

Reportedly, the 5,300-year-old Otzi was discovered in 1991 in the Alps. The analysis of ice mummies later gave many theories about his death.

Archaeologists believe that the iceman is a hunter who died of conflict with another tribe when hunting. But some medical analysis confirms that he died of parasitic infection.

Currently, the ice research experts are continuing to expand the mummy DNA study and hope to have more interesting information about this famous ice man.