An article is going around today (this will not be a question about <20year events) about the possible discovery of the Native American city of Etzanoa, and in the article it mentions "recently translated" documents from Coronado.
Is it conceivable that documents as important as those from Coronado have just been translated?
How significant a barrier is document in-translation to historian work, or is finding and translating documents routine?
Does the presence of lack of translated documents result in significant differences in historical narratives or interpretation across different language groups?
Document translation is a serious issue for historians. Most learn the language of the subject they specialize in but learning new languages, especially dead languages, takes a lot of time and effort. Historians studying a single subject might be dealing with documents written in multiple languages. There are significant efforts among historians and archivists to translate and digitize the billions documents that have been generated thought history and make them more accessible to people that don’t know the language they were written in. New caches of documents are found all the time so it is absolutely possible that documents from have just been translated or are still waiting to be translated.