I always find these articles about highly visual subjects that don't show any images to be a little bit under-researched. The Maya language and numeral system is fascinating in part <i>because</i> of its visual beauty. Maya text and design elements are widely incorporated into architecture and media in the region, even today.<p>This article showed us none of that. Not even a single image of a zero.
"It is noteworthy to point out that in Spanish or English, there are no expressions of time that go any further than two days into the past or the future;"<p>I'll think about this more next week.
Maybe only slightly on topic, years ago I highly enjoyed this book:<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero:_The_Biography_of_a_Dangerous_Idea" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero:_The_Biography_of_a_Dange...</a>