 In the official records of another Bronze Age empire , that of the Hittites in Anatolia , various references from c . 1400 BC to 1220 BC mention a country named Ahhiyawa . Recent scholarship , based on textual evidence , new interpretations of the Hittite inscriptions , as well as on recent surveys of archaeological evidence about Mycenaean @-@ Anatolian contacts during this period , concludes that the term Ahhiyawa must have been used in reference to the Mycenaean world ( land of the Achaeans ) , or at least to a part of it . This term may have also had broader connotations in some texts , possibly referring to all regions settled by Mycenaeans or regions under direct Mycenaean political control . Another similar ethnonym <unk> in 12th century BC Egyptian inscriptions , has been commonly identified with the <unk> . These <unk> were mentioned as a group of the Sea People . 
