The mainly Italian tourists visiting the ruins of Italy’s ancient city of Pompeii are getting a rare chance to see the site without the usual crowds—and admire spectacular finds unearthed during a six-year conservation project that is just now drawing to a close.
In a corner of the city that was frozen in time by a volcanic eruption in 79 A.D., visitors gathered recently outside the first newly excavated building to be opened. Vesuvius, the still-active volcano that buried Pompeii, stood in the distance. Archaeologists call…