The Lukka are more straightforwardly placed.

Lukka almost certainly refers to the region of Lycia in southwestern Anatolia — an identification supported by the geographical and cultural context of their appearances in Egyptian and Hittite records, where they are described as raiders operating from the southwestern coast of Anatolia.

The Denyen have been connected to the Danaoi — Homer’s name for the Greeks — and possibly also to a tribe or group called the Danuna who appear in texts from the Hittite empire.

This connection would place the Denyen in a broadly Aegean or Anatolian context.