We are at the Margloo Village, and I give the book to them so they can start asking the NPCs around the village to translate the book. I don't think they would be able to find a single NPC that can translate the book for them since it's an ancient language and the people that live in this desert don't even know that the Mauro Empire exists. If they're lucky, they might find an archeologist that understands the words of the ancient language, but that's like a one-in-a-million possibility to find that person.