Is it possible to simulate astronomical events which occured 3000 years ago?

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Question by roughelement: Is it possible to simulate astronomical events which occured 3000 years ago?
i stumbled upon this brilliant article about a documentary made by a nuclear physician Dr Manish Pandit - who has researched astronomical occcurances which happened 3000- 4000 years ago and has come out with some startling and amazing conclusions regarding the Mahabharatha War .
like the saying goes, "the answers to our future lie in our past".
Im curious to know is it possible to simulate rare astronomical occurances of the past and deduct how many years ago this might have happened?
i quote a part of his study and here it goes:

"There are more than 140 astronomy references in the Mahabharata. Dr Achar used simulations of the night sky to arrive at November 22, 3067 BC, as the day the Mahabharata war began.
He used the references common to Udyoga and Bhisma Parvan initially, and so Saturn at Rohini, Mars at Jyestha with initially only the two eclipses, Lunar at Kartika and Solar at Jyestha.
Let me tell you how rare this set of astronomical conjunctions is.
The Saros cycle of eclipses is periodic at 19 years and so is the Metonic cycle of lunar phases.
So if I say that Amavasya has occured at Jyestha, then this will occur again in 19 years, but if I say that a solar eclipse has occured at Jyestha, then this occurs again at Jyestha only after 340 years. Add Saturn at Rohini and we take this to 1 in 7,000 years. This set of conjunctions takes all of these into consideration, but also takes all the other data into consideration.
So now, we know about Balarama's pilgrimage tithis and nakshatras, and believe it or not, all that fits the 3067 BC date perfectly.
And to top it all, so does the repetition of the three eclipses described at the destruction of Dwarka 36 years later.
This would explain why so many other researchers tried and failed to find the date of the Mahabharata war as it is based on such a unique set of astronomy that it occured only once in the last 10,000 years."

I have been interested in Astronomy out of curiosity but this new path of using astronomical occurances to date historical occurances is absolutely amazing in my opinion.
I invite comments from the intelligensia in this forum.


Best answer:
Answer by Lola FThis technique is common when dating historical events or commensurating ancient calendars. Certainly it is possible to predict the positions of planets and times of eclipses in the past. Making predictions of the motions of bodies is the entire *point* of physics.

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