A 1, 500 year old manuscript has claimed that Jesus Christ married the prostitute Mary Magdalene and had children.

The so-called "Lost Gospel", which was unearthed at the British Library, has been translated from Aramaic and has revealed that Jesus had two children and the original Virgin Mary was Jesus's wife and not his mother, the Independent reported.

Professor Barrie Wilson and writer Simcha Jacobovic, who spent months translating the text, said that many experts have downplayed the biblical figure's historical importance but and she is of much greater significance than previously thought.

Further revelations from the book, including the names of Jesus's children, will be released on Wednesday.

Mary Magdalene already features in the existing gospels and is present at many of the important moments recorded in Jesus's life and earlier Nikos Kazantzakis in his 1953 book "The Last Temptation of Christ" and Dan Brown in "The Da Vinci Code" had made the same allegation.