• “Greater equality than that experienced in other Mesoamerican cities may have been key to the successes of an ancient Zapotec community in Mexico, which survived far longer than any contemporaneous metropolis, a new study suggests.” (The Guardian)

• The history of ragweed allergies. (Harper’s Magazine)

• “Ukrainians have long been aware of Russian imperial mythmaking.” (History Today)

• A new cooking museum in Rome lets visitors read the first mass-printed cookbooks: “Artusi was like the first food blogger.” (Hyperallergic)

• On Job. (Slate)

• The history of the Chinese street signs in Manhattan’s Chinatown. (New York Times)

• Regarding previous attempts to make daylight saving time permanent. (SmithsonianMag.com)

• Found: a sacred Phoenician pool. (Gizmodo)

• On exercise. (The New Yorker)

• This week in obituaries: William Hurt, Emilio Delgado, Bobbie Nelson, Brent Renaud, Yuriko, Neil Faulkner, Domenico “Dom” DeMarco, Traci Braxton, Maureen Howard, Hugh O’Shaughnessy, Lynn Yeakel, Grenville Davey, Hiram Maristany, Lauro Cavazos, Victor Fazio, Timmy Thomas, Mary Coombs, Bruce Duffy, Eugene Parker, Ralph Terry, Annie Flanders, Scott Hall, Johnny Grier, Tova Borgnine, and Peter Bowles.