Along with the Ekwesh, the Weshesh are found only in documents pertaining to the reign of Ramesses III, namely the second pylon of his mortuary temple at Medinet Habu, and the Great Harris Papyrus.
[3] According to the inscriptions at Medinet Habu, the Weshesh were camped in Amurru alongside the Peleset, Tjeker, Sherden, and Denyen.
The apparent coalition was decimated by the pharaoh and his armies, and Ramesses III records himself as leading a glorious procession of Sea People prisoners on the return journey.
[3] A year later, in 1873, Gaston Maspero published his "Anatolian hypothesis" which hypothesized the Sea Peoples originated in Asia Minor; connecting the Weshesh with the Carian settlement Wassos.
[3] Others connected the Weshesh with the Achaeans, an identification often made with the fellow Sea People clan of the Ekwesh, based on phonological similarities.