Oxford’s Bodleian To The British Museum

The Press Release from the venerable Bodleian Library at Oxford was put-out just as I had decided on publishing this Site. A coincidence demanding acknowledgment.

Carbon dating reveals earliest origins of zero symbol

‘Reading from right to left the small dot zero is the seventh character at the bottom right of the manuscript.

Carbon dating shows an ancient Indian manuscript has the earliest recorded origin of the zero symbol. The Bakhshali manuscript is now believed to date from the 3rd or 4th Century, making it hundreds of years older than previously thought…‘

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London, Glorious London. The weather is damp as ever, but the food has markedly improved. And I still get lost in its streets and parks and pubs and museums, happily so.

The original print of: The
‘Diamond-Cutter’ Sūtra is at the British Museum in London.

The original document [The Bakhshali Manuscript] is an hour away at the Bodleian at Oxford.

An hours bus-ride will connect Dot and Text.