The Origin of Zero

What really strikes me about these articles is the fact that they both explain a little about who really "discovered" zero. In the first article, It talked about how the first written ancient zero was in Mesopotamia. The second article talked about how the first zero was written in Babylon, which was a part of Mesopotamia in about 400-300 BC. Its quite strange, because there's no one historical answer to the origin of zero. They've decided this by using information from statues and other forms of sources, ranging from written on paper to written on tablets. As I explained earlier, no one person created a new number, but as people began to need a place holder representing nothing, they came up with the number zero. I really don't know how the world came to a consensus without efficient communication, but I would say that they just used what they had and did it the hard way, just so they could understand

(What is the origin of zero? How did we indicate nothingness before zero? by Robert Kaplan, Scientific American

The Origin of Zero by John Matson, Scientific American)