The following, of course, has implications for the presence of Greek names/words in the Book of Mormon:
Like many other problems associated with the geography of Anatolia in
the second millennium B.C., the question of Lukka’s location (or locations) has
been widely disputed since the decipherment of the Hittite texts.
. . .
Several Egyptian texts appear among the sources which contain
references to the Lukka people. These include the following:
1. A hieroglyphic inscription on an obelisk in the “Temple aux
obélisques” at Byblos, dating to ca. 2000 B.C., and honoring Kwkwn, son of Rwqq.
. . .
2. An Amarna letter, written by the king of Alasiya to Akhenaton and
referring to a raid on the Egyptian coast by a group of people called Lukki.
. . .
3. Records of the Battle of Kadesh, fought in the fifth year of Ramesses
II’s reign. Lukka men figure amongst the allies of the Hittite king Muwatallis
in this conflict.
4. An account of the “Sea Peoples’” onslaught on Egypt during the
reign of Merneptah.
. . .
The problems involved in attempting to settle on a single location for
the Lukka lands lead me to believe that there were in fact two main groups of
Lukka people—one in the vicinity of Lycaonia, the other in Caria. Quite
conceivably, Lycaonia was the original home of these people, some of whom later
moved west, possibly among the Maeander valley, and established themselves on
the Aegean coast. Admittedly this theory does not in any way give a complete
answer to the problems associated with a study of the Lukka people. However, it
may provide a partial explanation for the many apparently conflicting and
confusing references to Lukka in the documentary sources of the second
millennium B.C. (T. R. Bryce, “The
Lukka Problem–And a Possible Solution,” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 33,
no. 4 [October 1974]: 395, 396, 397, 404)
