Moroccan pirate queen Sayyida al-Hurra was largely omitted from history books, but now she's in Civilization 7 thanks to a professor's curiosity and years of research

If you read the history books of the 16th century, Sayyida al-Hurra will rarely show up. The powerful women of the Mediterranean and Islam typically don't, except as footnotes or asides. So her leadership, piracy and plundering for her people never quite made the major texts.

But the "pirate queen" of Morocco is finally receiving her due, at least in videogame form, as one of the playable heroes in Civilization 7's recent Tides of Power Collection DLC—thanks in part to the digging of one University of Kansas professor.