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'''[[Mitochondrial Eve]]'''
[[Image:MitochondrialEve.jpg|rightBehistun Inscription]]'''
[[Image:BehistunInscriptionSketch.jpg|thumb|1050px|An artist's impression of Mitochondrial Eve]]A comparison of the [[mitochondrial DNA]] of [[human]]s from many [[race]]s and [[region]]s suggests that all of these [[DNA sequence]]s have [[molecular evolution|evolved molecularly]] from a common ancestor sequence. Under the assumption that an individual inherits [[Mitochondrion|mitochondria]] only from one's mother, this finding implies that all living humans have a female line of descent from a woman whom researchers have dubbed '''Mitochondrial Eve'''. Based on the [[molecular clock]] technique of correlating elapsed time with observed genetic drift, Eve is believed to have lived about 150,000 years ago (148,000 BC). [[Phylogeny]] suggests she lived in [[Africa]].   The Behistun Inscription is illustrated by life-sized carved images of King Darius with other figures in attendance.]]
The '''Behistun Inscription''' (also '''Bisitun''' or '''Bisutun''', بیستون in [[Persian language|modern Persian]]) is to [[Cuneiform (script)|cuneiform]] what the [[Rosetta Stone]] is to [[Egyptian hieroglyph]]s: the document most crucial in the [[decipherment]] of a previously lost [[writing system|script]]. It is located in the [[Kermanshah Province]] of [[Iran]].

The inscription includes three versions of the same text, written in three different scripts and languages: [[Old Persian language|Old Persian]], [[Elamite language|Elamite]], and [[Babylonian language|Babylonian]].  A British army officer, [[Sir Henry Rawlinson]], had the inscription transcribed in two parts, in [[1835]] and [[1843]]. Rawlinson was able to translate the Old Persian cuneiform text in [[1838]], and the Elamite and Babylonian texts were translated by Rawlinson and others after 1843. Babylonian was a later form of [[Akkadian language|Akkadian]]: both are [[Semitic languages]].
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