Relik and Super How Partner to Protect Cultural and Religious Heritage in the Digital Age
The collaboration establishes a global standard ensuring that digital experiences are anchored to verified physical reality.
Relik, a UAE-based AI-powered authentication platform, has partnered with Super How, a technology and research group specializing in emerging digital technologies, to safeguard the world’s most significant cultural and religious treasures. The collaboration establishes a global standard ensuring that digital experiences are anchored to verified physical reality.
By combining Relik’s authentication technology with Super How’s expertise in decentralized digital infrastructure, physical artefacts are assigned unique digital identities, allowing instant verification using a smart device—without the need for stickers, NFC chips, or QR codes. This ensures that cultural heritage shared online remains authentic and trustworthy.
Through Super How’s HolyDeeds initiative, authenticated artefacts are transformed into immersive 360-degree narratives and interactive environments, preserving both their accuracy and provenance. The framework, which has gained recognition for work with the Vatican, is now being extended to protect Islamic heritage, including ancient Qur’anic manuscripts, and Ancient Egyptian artefacts. The collaboration offers governments, museums, and cultural institutions a secure method to share heritage globally while addressing the counterfeit market, valued at over $467 billion according to OECD and EUIPO reports.
The partnership emphasizes that protecting human legacy digitally begins with safeguarding the physical artefacts, combining technological innovation with cultural preservation to redefine how history is experienced and shared worldwide.
