Orchomenos was the citadel of the Minyans who once controlled NW Boeotia. It is one of those sites that have been continuously occupied since the Neolithic and maybe longer and there is still a village there today.
As you can see from the maps it was one of those sites beloved by Helladic builders, triangular or oval shapes, steep on some sides but with at least one section with a more gentle slope for access and water nearby, in this case rivers on both sides that flowed into Lake Copais.
This meant when lake levels were high they could control water and road traffic and when water levels were low had a fertile valley to the north for farming with a permanent water supply and still control over roads.
The Lake has gone and the wetlands drained once perhaps the second or third time or more times over the millennia for farmlands today. The rivers still flow.
And as in so many parts of Greece stone echoes linger.
Wow! People still live there? Maybe descendants of those who lived there back then...
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