The Denyen are one of the groups constituting the Sea Peoples, raiders associated with the Eastern Mediterranean Dark Ages who attack Egypt during the reign of Rameses III.The Denyen have been identified with the people of Adana, in Cilicia who existed in late Hittite Empire times.
They are also believed to have settled in Cyprus.
A Hittite report speaks of a Muksus, who also appears in an eighth-century bilingual inscription from Karatepe in Cilicia, which traces the kings of Adana from the "house of Mopsos", given in hieroglyphic Luwian as Moxos and in Phoenician as Mopsos, in the form mps.
The area also reports a Mopsukrene (Mopsus' fountain) and a Mopsuhestia (Mopsus' hearth), also in Cilicia.
