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by ooterness 547 days ago
The "multiple messages of increasing complexity" concept was one of the proposals. The simpler stages are usually written out in as many languages as possible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warnin...

Another proposal was to leave no marker at all. (Or to bury the first marker.) There's an argument that anything special on the surface will only make people curious about the site.