Copper FTW!

Commercially available etchants, and resists corrosion for centuries / millenia. And not too expensive.

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Any links to what you mean?

Regarding etching, any electronics hobby store should be able to sell you printable etch-resist transfer sheets, and ferric chloride etchant. You can get pure copper sheet at metal fabrication suppliers, or ebay.

Then you can use a computer to put your 12 words into a printable and possibly artistic / obscure design; print this on the transfer sheet, iron the transfer sheet onto the copper sheet, and dunk the sheet and etchant into a dish for ten minutes.

Beautiful, high-resolution result, and the copper sheet will last practically forever, even in the ground. Archeologists dig up well-preserved copper artifacts all the time after thousands of years.

https://www.instructables.com/Copper-Plate-Etching/