This is true both in the far past and the present day.

This man, ancient and withered, seemed to live again in the far past.

Was there a memory of a world that lay in the far past or the distant future?

Only they think that it is an alien artifact from the far past.

War was a horror of the far past, like disease.

The soft glow from the fire added to the illusion of the far past.

He had worked for some hours, his thoughts focused entirely on this man from the far past.

It helped to take his mind off certain things in the far past, things about which nothing could now be done.

The child, however, was taken from the far past.

The incidents I'd studied took place in the far past.