Star Detectives

I came across this today - forensic astronomy, which attempts to locate historical events through investigation of the celestial phenomena that records of them (art, literature and the like) describe. There's two extensive articles here about it. I think the idea is so phenomenal. It made me tingle. Very strange indeed. We can see their stars...

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/star-archive.html

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/features/print/3142/sky-detectives?page=0%2C0