Which ancient civilization invented the first known retail 'brand logo' - a distinctive symbol used by merchants to mark their products for recognition across trade routes?

Before modern shopping malls and online stores, ancient civilizations had sophisticated commercial systems with their own version of branding and retail strategies. From the marketplaces of Mesopotamia to Roman shopping districts, product development and brand recognition played crucial roles in ancient commerce. Test your knowledge about how our ancestors developed the foundations of modern retail and product marketing!

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Phoenicians, who marked their premium purple-dyed textiles with a distinctive shell symbol around 1500 BCE
Egyptians, who marked royal-commissioned pottery with the pharaoh's cartouche symbol around 2000 BCE
Romans, who required official stamps on amphorae to indicate wine quality and origin around 200 BCE
Chinese merchants of the Han Dynasty, who marked silk products with specific weaver symbols around 100 BCE