Egyptian mummy Pa-Ib (believed to be about 4,000 years old), a prized exhibit of the flamboyant showman P.T. Barnum, was just re-examined by researchers.

Now that’s a wrap! Yesterday marked just the fourth year the Herve Leger line has shown at New York Fashion Week — but its signature piece, the bandage dress, has already become the frock of ...

Not so. This wrap is intense and, to get the best results, I have to exercise while in the bandages. At least that’s what Meetra Nepomuceno, a wrap and skin care technician, tells me.

A term that now conjures horror-movie kitsch derives from the Arabic for ‘asphalt,’ an oil product used to preserve the dead.