Here’s a very short timeline of translation history:
- 🏺 196 BCE – Rosetta Stone shows early multilingual translation.
- 🏛️ 1st century BCE – Cicero promotes translating meaning over words.
- 📖 4th century – Saint Jerome translates the Bible into the Vulgate.
- 🌍 8th–10th centuries – Translation Movement spreads knowledge in the Islamic world.
- 🖨️ 15th century – Johannes Gutenberg boosts translation with printing.
- 📚 16th century – Martin Luther translates the Bible into German.
- 🧠 20th century – Eugene Nida develops modern translation theory.
- 🤖 21st century – AI tools like Google Translate enable instant translation.
👉 In short: from stone inscriptions → religious texts → global communication → AI translation.