Yeah, Because Nationalism across the world is all time low!
Besides, The two main contenders for the title from Cambodia and Indonesia have stone inscriptions with 'Zero' for the 'Saka' calendar year; So even if the inscriptions are older, The origin of zero likely points to somewhere in Indian subcontinent of Saka Era.
The author seems to conflate between 'Origin of zero' and 'Latest evidence for oldest occurrence of zero'.
I don't think professors dealing with Epigraphy, Philology (or) Archeology can make such a mistake unless writing a click-bait article with misleading content was the goal.
Besides, The two main contenders for the title from Cambodia and Indonesia have stone inscriptions with 'Zero' for the 'Saka' calendar year; So even if the inscriptions are older, The origin of zero likely points to somewhere in Indian subcontinent of Saka Era.
The author seems to conflate between 'Origin of zero' and 'Latest evidence for oldest occurrence of zero'.
I don't think professors dealing with Epigraphy, Philology (or) Archeology can make such a mistake unless writing a click-bait article with misleading content was the goal.