A real ad that ran in the Wall Street Journal in 1954, by Mar Samuel (a vicar of the Syrian Orthodox Church), who personally owned four of the dead sea scrolls (he bought them from a shoe maker and antiquities dealer from Bethlehem named Kando). Thanks to this ad, they were bought by the Hebrew University, through an intermediary; they already owned three scrolls. I have not heard how much they paid.

BTW, the dead sea scrolls were uncovered in various caves between 1948 and 1954 in (then) Jordanian-controlled parts of the West Bank. Their importance were not widely recognized until the mid 1950s, after Edmund Willson published his 1955 book “The Scrolls from the Dead Sea”.