Which ancient civilization pioneered the use of distinctive shop signs with pictorial symbols as a form of visual storytelling to help illiterate customers identify specific merchants and their products?

Before modern advertising and digital marketing, ancient civilizations developed sophisticated visual storytelling techniques to promote their goods and services. From Egyptian market stalls to Roman merchant signage, visual elements helped buyers identify quality products and trusted sellers. This trivia challenges your knowledge about how ancient merchants used early forms of 'branding' to stand out in bustling marketplaces across early civilizations.

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Ancient Romans, who created elaborate mosaic signs outside shops and used consistent imagery to denote specific goods and services
Ancient Egyptians, who used hieroglyphic shop banners that indicated the specialty of each merchant through standardized symbols
Ancient Greeks, who developed painted wooden signs featuring color-coded designs to represent different merchant guilds and products
Ancient Mesopotamians, who hung clay tablets with cuneiform symbols outside shops to identify specialized craftsmen and their wares