Translation is a necessary universal human activity due to multiple contacts among individuals and communities of different languages.

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The first historical sources of translation are sacred texts such as the Greek translation of the Old Testament and the Bible translation into Latin, The Vulgate, made by St. Jerome from the Hebrew and Greek originals? Later on they were the Iliad and the Odyssey.

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Roseta Stela translation made by Jean F. Champollion in 1799, may be considered one of the first representative works of modern translation? The document in question, discovered at the Nile Delta owns the same text in three different writings (hieroglyphic, demotic and greek), and in two different languages (Egyptian and Greek).

Nowadays, and despite all technical advantages which assist him, translator figure continues being essential to interpret the meaning and sense of an idea developed into a cultural context probably very different from that of the addressee.