SEVEN Egyptians were ordered on Sunday to stand trial in state security court on charges of using explosives to dig for Pharaonic treasures and sell them illegally, judicial sources said. After shadowing foreign archeologists in the area of Al-Koreimat, 100 kilometers south of Cairo, the group allegedly used explosives to dig a hole 15 meters deep into a mountainside but found nothing. Six of them were arrested on September 1, with three bags of explosives seized, while businessman Samir Mohammad Hassan remained at large, judicial sources said. The seven have been ordered to stand trial in High State Security Court on charges of illegal possession and use of explosives to hunt for antiquities with the aim of trafficking them, the authorities said. The court’s verdicts cannot be appealed. No date has been set for the trial. – AFP