The descriptive history of interpreters in Egypt provided by Herodotus several centuries earlier is typically not thought of as translation studies—presumably because it does not tell translators how to translate.
在更早幾世紀前的埃及，對口譯者的描述性歷史是由希羅多德所提出，這多半不被視為翻譯研究——據推測這是因為其中並未告訴譯者如何翻譯。