TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING TIMELINE

One of the first written Caliph Al-Mamun built

evidences of this process the House of Wisdom to
was the Rosetta Stone, train a translator base,
where was found a recorded establish terminology,
text on Egyptian, hieroglyph, and control translation
demotic and Greek that quality. The right skills The Nuremberg Trials were
served to deciphering flourish best with proper the first use of simultaneous The internet has fostered a
hieroglyphics different of infrastructure and good interpretation, which worldwide market for
the period. tools. stimulated technical translation services, for
advances in translation language localization and for
methods. translation software.

2000 1799 300 813 1400s 1945 Present

1800s 1954
B.C B.C B.C Day

Geoffrey Chaucer, The industrial The first machine

The first appearances the Old Testament
the famous author, revolution created translation was
of written texts partial was translated from
and poet translated a demand for created in 1954 by a
translations exist from Hebrew into Greek
various works from business group of scholars at
2.000 B.C of the Epic of by 70 scholars. This
Latin, Italian and documentation, the University of
Gilgamesh from translation is called
French into English. this development Vienna.
Sumerian into Asian the Septuagint,
created in turn
languages. since septuaginta
the need to
means seventy.
formalize some of
the translation
specialties.