Ha conseguito il Bachelor of Arts al Northwestern College, il Master of Arts presso l'Università del Missouri e Dottorato di ricerca alla Johns Hopkins University. Drews è specializzato in storia antica e in preistoria, in particolare nell'evoluzione della guerra e della religione.
Opere The Greek Accounts of Eastern History. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, for the Center for Hellenic Studies, 1973 Basileus: The Evidence for Kingship in Geometric Greece. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983 In Search of the Shroud of Turin: New Light on its History and Origins. Totowa, N. J.: Rowman and Allanheld, 1984. The Coming Of The Greeks: Indo-European Conquests in the Aegean and The Near East. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988. The End of The Bronze Age: Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe 1200 B.C. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. (editor) Greater Anatolia and the Indo-Hittite Language Family. Papers presented at a colloquium hosted by the University of Richmond, March 18–19, 2000. Washington, D.C.: Institute for the Study of Man, 2001. Early Riders: The Beginnings of Mounted Warfare in Asia and Europe. London: Routledge, 2004.
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