Some scholars have tentatively identified groups of Sea Peoples listed in Egyptian documents as groups known from other sources. These include the Ekwesh, identified as a group of Bronze Age Greeks (Achaeans; Ahhiyawa in Hittite texts); the Teresh, identified as Tyrrhenians (Tyrsenoi), known to later Greeks as sailors and pirates from Anatolia; the Luka, identified as a coastal people of western Anatolia, also known from Hittite sources (their name survives in classical Lycia on the southwest coast of Anatolia); the Sherden, who were probably Sardinians; the Shekelesh, probably identical with the Sicilian tribe called Siculi; and the Peleset, generally believed to refer to the Philistines.
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