The Letter, by Iván G. Azuara

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Max and the old man can't get many answers, so they travel to the Natural History Museum, visiting a woman named Susanna. '...but he could not discern its origin. All he could say was that it was very old. We decided to visit Susanna, the finest anthropologist at the Natural History Museum.'. Susanna studies the piece and findsa promising lead. 'I felt desperate... Was this piece so ancient it had been forgotten entirely? But she deciphered it... She possessed a book telling a story long forgotten... or perhaps deliberately hidden.' We see an image of a ritual involving burning a person. 'The carving belonged to a primeval tribe, older than the Sumerians, who appeased the wrath of ancient gods through sacrifice. We know nothing else of them, save that they vanished overnight.' The old man returns home. 'I returned home with the unsettling feeling of being watched, though with a certain satisfaction. The carving was an idol, perhaps of that strange deity... perhaps a piece used in the ritual.'
Transcript
Panel 1

Narration: ...but he could not discern its origin. All he could say was that it was very old.
Panel 2

Narration: We decided to visit Susanna, the finest anthropologist at the Natural History Museum.
Panel 3

Narration: I felt desperate... Was this piece so ancient it had been forgotten entirely? But she deciphered it...
Panel 4

Narration: She possessed a book telling a story long forgotten... or perhaps deliberately hidden.
Panel 5

Narration: The carving belonged to a primeval tribe, older than the Sumerians, who appeased the wrath of ancient gods through sacrifice. We know nothing else of them, save that they vanished overnight.
Panel 6

Narration: I returned home with the unsettling feeling of being watched, though with a certain satisfaction.
Panel 7

Narration: The carving was an idol, perhaps of that strange deity... perhaps a piece used in the ritual.