A Big Zero: Research uncovers the date of the Bakhshali manuscript
Why the open web links it
Research reveals the Bakhshali manuscript, containing the earliest known use of a zero symbol, dates back to the 3rd to 4th century.
Linked by 7 independent sites, 4 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including wikipedia.org, livescience.com, ancient-origins.net, refractor.io, uncommondescent.com.
Cited in 1 Wikipedia article, including Bakhshali manuscript.