You might find "How to Send a Message 1,000 Years to the Future"[1] and "Expert judgment on markers to deter inadvertent human intrusion into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant"[2] pretty interesting.
That was in fact the exact thing we were talking about at the time during a Philosophy of Art course with regards to art as a medium of communication. Btw, in my original post smithing should have been smiting; but autocorrect.
I recall many guffaw from people at the time thatsucha project was even a subject of research, but every time I look back at code I haven't touched in 6 months or more, I tend to end up thinking about it again.
[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/02/how-t...
[2] https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1279277/