The real truth behind the most favorite sugar

So I am back, almost after a year, and I'm sorry for that inconvenience. 
So I'm back with a new topic related to our most favourite food which is sugar.
Do you know where the first sugar was made?
How it was made?
Don't worry, I'm here to tell you all things and processes.

Originally, people chewed sugarcane raw to extract its sweetness. Indians discovered how to crystallize sugar during the Gupta Dynasty, around 350 AD, although literary evidence from Indian treatises such as  Arthashastra in the 4th-3rd century BC indicates that refined sugar was already being produced in India.

Early refining methods involved grinding or pounding the cane in order to extract the juice, and then boiling down the juice or drying it in the sun to yield sugary solids that looked like gravel. The Sanskrit word for "sugar" (sharkara) also means "gravel" or "sand"

The picture on the side shows how sugar looked after dring in the sun which were broken into smaller pieces.

(The sugar-making mould is in white colour)

Indian sailors who were consumers of clarified butter and sugar, carried sugar by various trade route. Travelling Buddhist monks brought sugar making skills to the Chinese during the reign of Harsha (6o6-647-AD)

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