 Uriah the Hittite was a captain in King David's army and counted as one of his "mighty men" in 1 Chronicles 11.French scholar Charles Texier found the first Hittite ruins in 1834 but did not identify them as such.The first archaeological evidence for the Hittites appeared in tablets found at the "karum" of Kanesh (now called Kültepe), containing records of trade between Assyrian merchants and a certain "land of "Hatti"".